Changing Bodies

Lobster anyone? 

Alone in his bedroom, Rev Kev carries out various experiments that he hopes will lead to a change from man to fish – or crustacean or poultry. He’s not too particular. When he isn’t submerging himself in a huge tank of water, he's donning a lobster suit and engaging in reveries about undersea explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau or trying to do a brain swap with a chicken. In between, he reveals to us bits of his sad outsider life: his high school years, when he was ridiculed for being the lone member of the school’s religious studies club and tagged with the nick-name Reverend Kevin; his first job, in a fish factory, where he was fired for pocketing the air bladders of gutted fish. A sense of doom hangs heavy in his room. British philosopher J.H. Bennett warns of impending natural disasters on the radio and a toy passenger jet circles above, containing, Rev Kev tells us, a pair of grenade-bearing terrorists ready to blow the plane out of the sky. An ingenious satire on how doing your own thing can lead to the self-deluding hazards of trying to be what you're not.

ARTISTIC

Written and Directed By: Blake Brooker
Sound Design and Composition By: Richard McDowell

CAST 

Michael Green - Rev Kev