About the Show

The seas have risen, billions have died and those who are left live on farms atop skyscrapers, atop mountains. The scientists have tried everything. Floating islands sank, space probes found nothing, and the giant sponges, visible from the moon, are now rotting icons of failure. Now science and humanity are turning to the oceans themselves. A last ditch effort to save the human race requires journeying down through the mysterious depths of the deep blue sea to find a new place for us to live.

Alvin Sputnik, who has just lost his wife, accepts this perilous mission so that he may to follow her soul down to the underworld so that they can be together again once more.

The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer is a multi award-winning one-man micro-epic puppet show that melds technology and multimedia into a touching story of enduring love and the end of the world.

A visually inspired solo show, The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer is created and performed by Tim Watts, who employs an unique blend of mime, puppetry, live and recorded music, and animation to present an exploration of the next and oldest frontier: the deep blue sea.

Watts debuted The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer at Perth’s Blue Room Theatre in June 2009 before presenting a highly successful season at the New York International Fringe Festival, where it was awarded “Outstanding Solo Show” and received rave reviews.

About Tim Watts (Creator/Performer/Animator)

Tim is a performer, deviser, director, producer, puppeteer and animator. He is a member of “Weeping Spoon Productions”, an international multi-award winning independent theatre company based in Perth, Western Australia. He has performed/ devised/ directed theatre and  participated in various workshops all around the world with leading theatre practitioners/ companies including Marek Bečka (Prague), Jean-Guy Lecat (Paris), Complicite (London), and  Dell'Arte International (USA). His most recent credits include, “Deathtrap” (PICA, Perth) “The  World Inspite of Itself” (China), “Red Lashes” (UNIMA 2008, Perth), “Greed” (Canada Fringe),  “Hope is the saddest” (Brisbane Festival), Duck Duck Goose (The Blue Room, Perth), Oscar  (Perth) and Heart of Gold (PICA,Perth).

For more information please contact Tim Watts at tim@weepingspoon.com

The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer was created by Tim Watts in collaboration with Arielle Gray.

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