{"id":690,"date":"2020-09-08T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nichsmith.info\/?post_type=bauman_portfolio&#038;p=690"},"modified":"2020-09-08T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T13:09:18","slug":"long-live-the-little-knife","status":"publish","type":"bauman_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.nichsmith.info\/?bauman_portfolio=long-live-the-little-knife","title":{"rendered":"LONG LIVE THE LITTLE KNIFE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Client:  David Leddy\/\/Fire Exit<\/p>\n<p>A dynamic, absurd, and uplifting theatre piece about forgery, castration and blind drunkenness. Liz and Jim are a husband and wife team of forgers who have risen to great heights and fallen to great depths in their careers as con artists and counterfeiters. They are caught in a turf war over fake vintage handbags. They need to find \u00a3250 grand in protection money. Their Big Boss, The Wee Man, convinces them to undertake a hare-brained mission to up their game and become the world\u2019s greatest art forgers. There\u2019s only one problem. They can\u2019t paint.<\/p>\n<p>In this fast-paced, provocative, and boisterous caper Leddy finds the incongruous connections between verbatim theatre, free-market economics, the psychology of \u2018truth\u2019 and a castrated labradoodle in a classic Chanel clutch bag.<\/p>\n<p>The show began life as a mini-commission for the Royal Shakespeare Company in the British Museum. It got such an overwhelming response that David Leddy brought the characters back for a full-length escapade for the 2013 Edinburgh Festival Fringe where it sold out and received fifteen four-star reviews.<\/p>\n<p>All the text on this page has been stolen with the consent of the copyright holder.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Long Live The Little Knife (trailer)\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/64540511?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nCredits:<\/p>\n<p>Written and directed: DAVID LEDDY<\/p>\n<p>Performers:<br \/>\nJim &#8211; NEIL MCCORMACK<br \/>\nLiz &#8211; WENDY SEAGER<\/p>\n<p>Designer: ALI MACLAURIN<br \/>\nLighting Consultant: NICH SMITH<br \/>\nAssistant Director: SAM ROWE<\/p>\n<p>Technical Stage Manager: GERALD MCDERMOTT<br \/>\nStage Manager &#8211; LINSEY JOHNSTONE<\/p>\n<p>Producer: MHARI HETHERINGTON<br \/>\nAdministrator: AIYANA D&#8217;ARCANGELO<\/p>\n<p>Funded by Creative Scotland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","portfolio_category":[16],"class_list":["post-690","bauman_portfolio","type-bauman_portfolio","status-publish","hentry","portfolio_category-theatre"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichsmith.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bauman_portfolio\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichsmith.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/bauman_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichsmith.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/bauman_portfolio"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichsmith.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichsmith.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fportfolio_category&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}