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Just after the end of the world, a lonely survivor clings on to better times with a bicycle-powered reading lamp and a dusty old gramophone. He's fed up, he's had enough and he's ready to die.

So it's a shame that his friend Hazmat, an eight-foot radiation suit with a penchant for mischief, is having none of it. Hazmat has a different take on the man's past and won't let him go before he's made to face the truth...

With an original score performed live by Tony Maiof, and a beautifully intricate design by Richard Kingdom, Demonstrate sinks its teeth into the tricky marriage of science and morality.

Hazmat & Me (originally Ever the Bull) has been created with the kind support of the Nuffield Theatre (Lancaster) and South Hill Park (Bracknell) where Demonstrate is currently resident.




 
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Credits

Devised by the company
Performed by Matt Hill and Gerard Matthews (in the suit)
Directed and designed by Richard Kingdom
Music composed and performed by Anton Maiof and Daniel Bennett
Structural engineering by John Kingdom
Lighting design by Charlotte McClelland
Slide show and additional design and creation by Paul Cochrane

With thanks to Samantha Broomfield, Zoë Prosser, Kathy Smith, Matthew Waldock and Piotr Woycicki for their involvement in the show's creation.

Special thanks also to everyone at South Hill Park, particularly Ron McAllister and the Wilde Theatre's technical team, Matt Fenton and Alice Booth at the Nuffield Theatre, Arts Council England, Bracknell Forest Council, SETA, and the Farnham Maltings.

A final, special thanks to Chris & John Kingdom for never throwing anything away.

Previous Performances

2004 (as "Big Big Little Boy" scratch)
Wed 16 April
Tue 22 April

2005 (as "Ever The Bull" ritual version)

Wed 26 Jan
Fri 3 Feb
Fri 11 - Sat 12 Feb
Sun 20 Mar
Fri 25 - Sat 26 Mar

2005 (as "Ever The Bull" work-in-progress)
Sat 28 May
Thur 9 June
Tue 14 June

2006 (as "Ever The Bull")
Wed 8 - Fri 10 Feb
Fri 17 Mar
Sat 18 Mar
Wed 26 April
Thur 4 May
Fri 12 May
Thu 17 - Fri 18 May
Tue 3 - Sat 14 Oct Blue Elephant Theatre, London

2007 (as "Ever The Bull")
Fri 9 Mar Unity Theatre, Liverpool
Fri 10 Mar
Prema, Gloucestershire
website by Richard Kingdom