Cartoon de Salvo
Since 1997 Cartoon de Salvo have been creating imaginative and irresistible theatre. Our work is fresh and fun, and blends storytelling, script-defying impro and live music. We have performed our work everywhere from Edinburgh to the Glastonbury Festival, via tiny Cornish village halls, allotments in Surrey and Nottinghamshire and cultural centres in Hong Kong. Cartoon de Salvo have recently been awarded major funding from ACESE for organisation development. Cartoon De Salvo are currently touring an improvised show, Hard Hearted Hannah and Other Stories and developing Pub Rock, a new piece about artistic integrity.
Cartoon de Salvo and The Darkroom
We spent a week in the Darkroom with Toby Sedgewick. Toby's work with his original company The Moving Picture Mime Show had an immeasurable influence on the country's greatest devising companies. We worked with Lecoq techniques including the larval Basal masks and then with Toby’s photograph story making techniques. Toby's acknowledgement of visual detail – what you see and how you see it in performance as opposed to what is said and how it’s written in a text – was the most fantastic thing to take away with us. This immediately went into our next R&D work on The Ratcatcher of Hamelin but more importantly his openness, curiosity and faith as an artist will stay with the Salvo’s ethos and continues to inspire us.
