Scott Turnbull presents … Surreally Good review – that’s edutainment!

Summerhall, EdinburghThe theatre-maker’s childlike passion for stories and illustrations makes facts a hoot in this faux seminarYou can’t argue with the title: here is a weird, wonderfully warm morning show from illustrator and theatre-maker Scott Turnbull. Armed with an overhead projector and a stack of acetate sheets, he is our “edutainment tutor”, devoted to an anti-Gradgrind enterprise of spreading joy through facts. Today’s lesson plan: rising sea levels, youth clubs and, er, vampire bunnies. Today’s methods: limericks, songs, plinky-plonk music and lots of doodles, some done live. Audience contributions will be rewarded with badges.The result is considerably more “tainment” than “edu” as a family saga is conjured as a backstory. Pottering amiably among us, Turnbull combines our session with the proud yet recently turbulent history of the Tees Valley Projector Club, whose presidency has passed to Scott after his father’s recent death. There are sketches of his ancestors, including the great-great-grandmother whose (fully detachable) hand was sought by Beethoven and Brian “brother of Lord” Byron. A tale of pioneering lesbian scientists in a sea cave is followed by a portrait of a man with a leaf moustache, in turn followed by a Sonic Youth-referencing tale of a rabbit relocating from Los Angeles to Turnbull’s home of Stockton-on-Tees. And there are adverts for cigarettes. Made for babies. Continue reading...

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