Moon cannot get out interview
Sketch duo Moon - Jack Chisnall and Joshua Dolphin - are at the Edinburgh Fringe with a show called We Cannot Get Out. Let's find out more...
How did you guys go about planning and writing this show?
Our act is basically little sketches and songs and things, so we've tried to get as many good ones of those as possible. Then we have the chore of making sure the whole thing is more than just a daisy chain of jokes, while also trying to avoid the inevitable criticism that we've just 'tacked on' a conceit. Jury's still out.
So the premise of the show is that the venue tries to kill you. What inspired that?
It's sort of a response to our experiences previewing our last show. Wherever we played, it was like the room kept thinking of new ways to mess with us; when we solved one issue, another one would start. Fix the projector, the speakers would start making weird popping sounds. So we wanted to make a show about two idiots trying to play a gig in a room that's clearly trying to kill them.
This is your second Fringe run. What are you going to do differently this time round?
We're working with production wizards Show And Tell, who we hope are going to keep us sane by preventing us from refreshing the tickets sold page 3000 times a minute. Jack has vowed to play a lot more tennis so hopefully the weather holds out.
Why the boiler suits on stage?
Something about them being sort of homespun and practical but also with a faint sci-fi feel. Our moodboard for the act is always that first Wallace & Gromit] when they go into space: it has to be sort of provincial and folky, whilst also having a bleak surreal edge. Alan Bennett meets 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The show is directed by Jordan Brookes. What's it like to work with him?
Jordan's only input thus far has been to repeatedly ask us to do a routine based on us sucking our own dicks. But he is a kind bloke who just seems incapable of bad ideas and is really pushing us to work hard and not settle for what is easy. But the sucking our dicks thing mainly.
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