Johnny’s Midnight Goggles

“The One, the Holy Grail of the Brighton Festival. magical, theatrical genius.” – Brighton Magazine on Johnny’s Midnight Goggles.

Johnny’s been kidnapped, the Black Camel of Takrilakastan has shown up and a
mysterious pair of goggles has opened a portal to another world. Midnight is fast approaching and the chase is on to rescue Johnny.

Johnny’s Midnight Goggles is a mind-and genre-melting explosion of story-telling,
ravishing singing, virtuoso cello-playing and sonic wizardry – Tim Burton meets John Adams, Arnold Schwarzenegger meets Edith Piaf, Philip Pullman meets Paganini.

Witty, nail-biting and entrancing music theatre with goggles on!

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Written and Composed by Pete M Wyer
Performed by Matthew Sharp
Lighting by Mark Howland
Production by Robert Hollingworth
Produced by Fiona O’Mahony

A SharpWire/Tete a Tete co-production supported
by Brighton Festival and Caravan

A note from the writer…
Johnny’s Midnight Goggles began on a balcony in the south of France, when I looked up one day and saw a mysterious black camel in the nearby sports field, which soon disappeared. A little later, after they let me out of the psychiatric ward, I wrote down my experiences and set them to music. There was only one person with the pre-requisite talent and insanity to attempt such a piece…thankfully, Matthew was having a house-warming and I knew he’d be more than drunk enough to take it on with open arms…I hoped he wouldn’t discover the bomb-carrying dwarves on page 4 until after I’d departed…also around that time another crazy man, one Bill Bankes-Jones, offered some work-in-progress space at the 2007 Tête à Tête festival…and here we are.
Pete M Wyer July 2006

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Click below for:
· An extract of the show