Boxed - A Beatboxing Adventure

Sholmo and The Vocal Orchestra is back!

When: 17 - 22 May 2010

Where: London E4 Udderbelly, Southbank

Tickets: £15 (£13 concessions) - Buy

This event has taken place. Read the review of Boxed here!

Meet Lonely Joe, a boy who can’t speak. Nobody understands his mysterious mouth music. One day, everything changes when he meets Afro, a supercool beatboxer who takes him to meet The Misfits, a gaggle of well meaning but disorganized beatbox troublemakers. But soon the slick beatbox gangster Beatrix Badmouth arrives with her Cronies and tries to woo Joe to join her evil gang. Will Joe be seduced by their all-powerful microphones and slick beats?

Quick Q&A with Shlomo

Shlomo and the Vocal Orchestra in Boxed What's the story/concept behind this Boxed?

Boxed is beatbox theatre. It follows the story of Lonely Joe, a boy who can't speak. One day he meets a crazy beatboxer called Afro who takes him into the beatbox underworld where all the beatboxers hang out. They build this human time machine and go back to the 90s and sing an amazing medley of awful 90s tunes. It's basically a mad musical adventure and a big old excuse to have a load of fun onstage!

Who makes up the cast?

There's 9 of us in the cast (see box, right), all beatboxers, vocalists and some incredible singers. I wanted to create beatboxing's answer to Stomp or Into the Hoods and this is what we created.

I saw Simeon Qsyea from Birdgang was involved. How was he involved?

Simeon is our choreographer and movement director. It's been great to work with him - we aren't all dancers (especially me!) so we've had a lot of fun adding movement into the routines.