A SUPERCOLLIDER FOR THE FAMILY
Press Reviews
LOVE IN A FUTURE CLIMATE
A
Supercollider For The Family is the
world's best "feel-good" movie that never
got made. It is a brave man who can
speak well of love through such cynical times;
Moor's sweetly melancholy tale of a
physicist's devotion to his tightrope walking
wife is enchanting. Supercollider is
set in the near future, where the hot new
drink is "a 'Dutch Cappuccino' - one of the
new contraceptive coffees," and the
supermarkets have gone to war. The narrator
has been asked to launch "an atom smasher for
home use" and sets out with his Guardian Angel
to untangle the problems involved in shrinking
an 87 kilometre long mechanism to the size of
a bicycle wheel. The jokes are so fast and
so beautifully constructed that the audience
is unable to laugh for fear they may not
hear the next one. Moor is a
surprisingly graceful performer, and
his long body and elegant hands bring
to life the bizarre world of his
imagination. Supercollider is the
beautiful, funny child of Wim Wenders and
Thomas Pynchon; sometimes even comedy
should make you cry.
Hettie Judah, The Times, 16th August 1997
Ben
Moor's new storytelling show is an unlikely
mixture of subatomic physics, conspiracy
theories and touching sentimentality. As in
last year's hit Twelve, he proves to
be master of the extraordinary simile.
With constant linguistic invention, he relates
his attempts to build a family-size particle
accelerator while maintaining his relationship
with his tightrope-walking wife... The moral
of the tale - that what is important in life
is human relationships - is ancient, but it
has rarely been told in quite such an odd
way... Moor is one of a select group of
performers who manage to step out of the
mainstream, and perhaps the only one who
pursues the beautiful as well as the funny.
Richard Turner, The Scotsman, 11th August
1997
Ben
Moor, the science graduate turned comedy
performer, becomes more lyrical with each of
his one-man shows. His latest adventure is
typical of his past work - brilliant streams
of consciousness comedy, bad puns and
strangely plausible scientific theory...
Unfettered and inexplicable madness? Probably,
but the gangly showman performs in such a
joyous, winning manner that everything
seems entirely justifiable. two parts comic to
one part physicist and one part poet, Moor continues
to defy belief... He should never be
missed.
Phil Gibby, The Stage, 21st August 1997
Best
of the SF bunch this year was A
Supercollider For The Family... As a
performer, Moor is a gangly dynamo of flailing
limbs topped by a nerdy face, as a writer
he's a master of subtly surreal one-liners
and bizarre plots.
SFX Magazine, November 1997
Ben
Moor (is) a man awash with laughable
accessories - big ears, funny voices, excellent
gags, the works.
Tim Lusher, Evening Standard 26th May, 1998
A
Supercollider For The Family is rich in
pathos puns and particle physics and
comes from a man who could give Jarvis Cocker
lessons in lankiness.
Nicholas Barber, Independent on Sunday
