The Ghost In The Machine...
Colin Warhurst, Joe O'Byrne and Chris Lane outside LUCKY CABS
RANK is the most technically complicated show we have done so far. The play would require radio excerpts, from PARADISE HEIGHTS own radio studio of course, PARADISE RADIO. PHIL'S ALL NIGHT PHONE IN (and an idea for a future Tale from Paradise Heights is on the drawing board for a play set in PARADISE RADIO Studio's), it would also require digital imagery to be shot for the play to be used onstage to work seamlessly with the actors. On top of this HEARTLAND TV (a Paradise Heights creation) would be transmitting live TV News broadcasts that had to be shot for the play. These sequences were shot by ED LILLY and ADRIAN PECKITT of BLIND AURA PICTURES, and they did a magnificent job. The play would also require an original musical and sound effects score, pulled off fantastically by Barry Thompson who also composed and edited the radio sequences.
The play was revisited in 2011 and the digital sequences were reshot to match the new sister production to this play, the film THE WATCHER, as both stories were set on the same Halloween night in Paradise Heights, this time the film sequences were directed by IAN CURLEY and shot by COLIN WARHURST and BEN MOTTERSHEAD.
The Lucky Cabs picture above was taken by DAN WARHURST who mocked up the early LUCKY CABS sign, LUCKY CABS being the taxi RANK where the play was set. Eagle eyed viwers of THE WATCHER might just catch the PARADISE RADIO station sign on the side of a building, and an advertising bus shelter sign for Frank Morgan's club, THE ACE OF SPADES, seen in the play STRAWBERRY JACK, a couple of nice touches from COLIN WARHURST's editing skills. It's all about creating a very real and believeable world.
TRIGGER HAPPY - Ed Blaney (THE FALL) & Mark Day (THE HAPPY MONDAYS) kindly allowed us to use their scorchingly atmospheric track BUSTED to open the show, it really set the tone. Below is a 'Making of...' documentary where you can hear some of that track, the doc is from the play's original outing in 2009.
The play was revisited in 2011 and the digital sequences were reshot to match the new sister production to this play, the film THE WATCHER, as both stories were set on the same Halloween night in Paradise Heights, this time the film sequences were directed by IAN CURLEY and shot by COLIN WARHURST and BEN MOTTERSHEAD.
The Lucky Cabs picture above was taken by DAN WARHURST who mocked up the early LUCKY CABS sign, LUCKY CABS being the taxi RANK where the play was set. Eagle eyed viwers of THE WATCHER might just catch the PARADISE RADIO station sign on the side of a building, and an advertising bus shelter sign for Frank Morgan's club, THE ACE OF SPADES, seen in the play STRAWBERRY JACK, a couple of nice touches from COLIN WARHURST's editing skills. It's all about creating a very real and believeable world.
TRIGGER HAPPY - Ed Blaney (THE FALL) & Mark Day (THE HAPPY MONDAYS) kindly allowed us to use their scorchingly atmospheric track BUSTED to open the show, it really set the tone. Below is a 'Making of...' documentary where you can hear some of that track, the doc is from the play's original outing in 2009.
Jeni Howarth Williams (LISA) and Garry Dobson (Solicitor) PIC: Tony Thornborough
Joe on location for the video shoots for RANK Pic ED LILLY
Ben Mottershead: Rank reshoots and Paradise Heights Documentary film maker
Original poster for RANK, Joe's inferior design to...
...DARREN McGINN's superb new poster
Ian Curley, Co Producer and Production Designer, on location
Lucky Cabs Logo: Designed by DAN WARHURST
