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PRODUCTIONS
MAGNUS VOLK'S ELECTRIC TRAIN OF THOUGHT
Magnus Volk’s Electric Train Of Thought – short, site specific, immersive play : monologue, male, (20 mins)
An intimate journey with Brighton’s very own Magnus Volk – inventor and engineer. Victorian engineer Magnus Volk regales us with his vision of an electric future - and we share his excitement at this new form of power, in those heady days after the advent of the light bulb. Volk invented the electric train, the electric car and arguably most memorably, the "Daddy Longlegs" – an ocean-going carriage on stilts. He wants to emulate Brunel and claim his place in history. The council have other ideas and decry his ideas as unlikely to succeed – the audience is his board of directors and his task in these few minutes is to persuade them to resurrect his sea-going train – with further financial (and emotional) investment.
Production: commission for Bitesize Productions, Brighton Fringe Festival 2011 aboard “Hendrick’s Horseless Carriage of Curiosities” train (2011)
Second production in association with Bitesize, Brighton Fringe Festival 2018, at Volks Aquarium Visitor Centre, Madeira Drive with Robert Cohen and Julian Howard Mcdowell sharing the role of Magnus.