A one-man show by Charlie Flynn about the man who captured the Patterson-Gimlin film of Bigfoot, performed at The Lantern Theatre as part of the Brighton Fringe.
Charlie Flynn brings Bluff Creek to The Lantern Theatre on Thursday 5 November, a one-man monologue that takes on one of the most famous pieces of footage in cryptozoology. Flynn plays Roger Patterson, the man behind the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film: sixty seconds of grainy footage showing an alleged Bigfoot walking across a dry creek bed in America's Pacific Northwest. It's a clip that's been picked apart for decades, and the play puts Patterson himself at the centre of it.
Flynn imagines Patterson as a terminally ill rodeo clown and a hustler who spent the rest of his life insisting he'd filmed the creature, sticking to the story until his dying day. The staging is sparse — just a chair, a hat, and the plaster cast of a very big foot — and from there it builds the wild landscape of North America. The original film is screened twice during the show, and the play frames it as a litmus test of belief: those who find it too good to be true against the hard-headed sceptics who see nothing more than a man in an ill-fitting ape suit.
Flynn wrote the piece and co-directed it with Aya O'Shea, with sound design by Matt Eaton. The production is brought to the Brighton Fringe by Loose Threads.
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It runs at The Lantern Theatre, 77 St James's Street, BN2 1PA, on Thursday 5 November at 19:30. Tickets are £10.00.
