A performer drops a large pile of petticoats and only his hands can be seen.

Tongue Twister

Greg Sinclair

Tongue Twister is one man’s attempt to say tongue twisters in as many different languages as possible. Whilst also trying to dance. And make music. And do all the costume changes without leaving the stage.

Tongue Twister is a celebration of the musical beauty of language, and was originally made as a short film called Seashells.

Creator, Co-director & Performer Greg Sinclair

Movement Director & Co-director Hannah Venet

Co-director Lu Kemp

Scenographer Rachel O’Neill

Costume Designer Alison Brown

Video Designer Lucas Chin Peng Kao

Composer & Sound Designer - Ben Fletcher

Lighting Designer Michaella Fee

Wardrobe Assistants Emma Renhard, Kathryn Weaving, Maxine Townsend

Puppet Maker Fergus Dunnet

Producer Scottish Theatre Producers

Photographer Matthias Kremer

  • Man wearing bush costume on a yellow stage
  • Man in a large orange hat poking his head out of a blue tent.
  • Man standing on one leg wearing many, many jumpers.
  • Man wearing yellow, standing on a box with a microphone, lit in pink.
  • Man emerging from tent wearing a grass covered hood on which cows are standing.
  • Man wearing large hat creatively covered in bottle corks.

“Thanks to costume designer Alison Brown, these strange phrases find physical form in a multi-tiered skirt, a three-level cake, a brain/frog hybrid, a web of tin cans and an aunty in a tent. By the end, the stage is covered in colourful props, the visual wonder matching the playful possibilities of the spoken word.”

— The Guardian

“from a brain with frogs-legs to a seemingly infinite tower of skirts, each serves to illustrate or empower the spoken word. This is a highly polished, joyful, yet considered plunge into the avant-garde.”

— The Quinntessential Review