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"A stand-up storyteller par excellence, Searles is the diametric opposite of a pub bore... a combination of Bill Bryson's eye for the ridiculous and Rory Bremner's ear for mimicry.. he could have gone on for another hour and nobody would have batted an eye" Metro **** He bought a ticket, jumped on a plane and set off. No Rough Guide in the world could have prepared him for the consequence... For the past eight years Searles has toured his internationally acclaimed trilogy of one-man shows about his extraordinary South American odyssey throughout the UK, USA, Europe, Middle & Far East, Ireland, Bermuda; sell out successes include the Cottesloe - Royal National Theatre, Soho Theatre, Royal Exchange Manchester, and the Cheltenham Literature, Chichester and Bermuda Festivals Written and performed by Peter Searles, Directed by Stephen Frost |
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| From the moment his plane lands in Caracas (without his luggage) we're on a roller-coaster ride down unexplored tributaries of the Amazon, across the snow-capped peaks of the Andes and into the depths of some of the most brutal prisons in the world. A catalogue of close scrapes and surprise encounters - drug-smugglers, Dutch airline hostesses, Carmelite monks, Maoist guerrillas, Mancunian ornithologists, Amazonian Indians and a French Shaman - not to mention crocodiles, jaguars and giant shit-eating centipedes |
Sitting in a bar with a bunch of oddballs, a bizarre sequence of coincidences and we're off in search of a mystery cave rumoured to hold the last of the cosmic secrets, a journey across Bolivia's lawless cities, seedy bars, prisons, jungle night-clubs, Brazilian dancers, Drug Enforcement Agents, illegal loggers and a New Zealander Nazi. An odyssey that leads finally to a lost world in remotest Amazonia, and the shadow of Cerro Amboro; the great sacred mountain shrouded in mystery and myth
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From the scorching wastes of the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile, we travel south; through shantytowns and smog laden cities to a world of forests, lakes and volcanoes. Accompanied by oversexed train drivers, a beautiful young revolutionary, lots of out of work actors, Marxist priests, fascist police, Chilean Eco-warriors, and Pinochets neighbours; it is a journey that turns into a quest for truth and meaning in land torn apart by thirteen years of military dictatorship
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