Birmingham Comedy Festival - 10th October

Futurology Live! is returning to Birmingham again on Friday 10th October to be part of Birmingham's Comedy Festival (in association with Wye Valley Brewery). The show is being held at the Old Joint Stock Theatre, 8pm.

Show tickets available online at http://www.birminghamboxoffice.com/ or by calling the theatre on 0121 200 0946.

More details about the city wide comedy fest can be viewed at the official site.

What is Futurology Live?

A theatrical feast of magic, mentalism and silly pseudo-science.

"Predicting the past is easy. Predicting the future is not." Now a new breed of soothsayers has emerged, and they're armed with science. Futurology and the futurologists behind it are sweeping the world with their technological brooms.

SCIENCE + SUPERSTITION = SUPERFACT

Join Dr Johnny Façade as he explains and demonstrates futurology live. Now everyone can think Tomorrow's World today. A groundbreaking multimedia show that won the prize for 'Best Solo Comedy' at last year's Buxton Fringe Festival.

The fast paced and interactive show uniquely fuses magic and stand-up comedy to create the illusion that the preposterous claims of futurology really do work. With demonstrations involving a mind reading duck and the teleportation of an object to a randomly chosen location in Birmingham.

"Rapid-fire delivery of jokes and well-rehearsed sleight of hand." Buxton Fringe Review

More reviews and a 4Talent article can be seen in earlier blog posts below.

See the show flyers here:

Who is Johnny Façade?

Dr Johnny Façade is:

• a whizz at PowerPoint
• an award winning magician
• stand up comedian
• lecturer
• animator/film maker
• telepathetic
• going bald
• a creation

Something about Nothing

Something about Nothing (the sequel to Futurology) was premiered at Buxton Fringe Festival 2008. The show attempts to explain almost everything there is to know about nothing. Multimedia edutainment from "annihilation" through to "zero". The show sold out and was short listed for the following awards:

• Best Comedy Show
• Best Comedian (Matt Pritchard)
• Best New Writing

4Talent article

Futurology Live! has been recently featured on the 4Talent website. Check out the article here. The show then went on to sell out when it was performed at the mac (Midlands Arts Centre) in Feb '08.

Buxton Festival Fringe 2007

Winner of 'Best Solo Comedy' award

Futurology Live! was first performed in July 2007 at Buxton Fringe Festival.

Fringe Review - Stephanie Billen
When Matt Pritchard completed his PhD in atomic physics I bet his university tutors never imagined it would be put to such an extraordinary use. For Buxton's Matt Pritchard, I can reveal, is the creative force behind this wonderful comedy show featuring an earnest young professor, Dr Johnny Façade, who entertains and enlightens his audience with a science lecture laced with demonstrations, magic tricks and even a time travel machine…



Façade offers several 'ponder points' to help us digest all this and his lecture is expertly illustrated with moving diagrams and footage of his somewhat bewildered work colleagues. Best of all are the audience experiments whereby Derren Brown-like mind-reading leads to some genuinely impressive magic tricks, not that Dr Façade would be happy to have them described as such.



I could tell you more about the Time Trumpet of Dr Façade's Top Ten Future Predictions, but I urge you to enroll at his classes and discover it all for yourself. Prepare to be dazzled and amused, particularly when a hairy egg is sent careering through space and time in a live teleportation test... It is all good fun - your children may well enjoy it too - and there is even a hint of real science and philosophy in there too. In the incontrovertible words of Dr Façade, be warned: 'Your future could be harmful to your health...'