Tony Coll & Associates produces sketches, short plays, songs and other material to support corporate stage shows and themed events. Our service includes writing the scripts, casting the actors and directing the performance. We can also write speeches for your key executives – motivational, explanatory or light-hearted as appropriate. But nothing wakes up an audience quicker than an exciting spectacle, and Tony Coll has an unusual track record in developing these projects. Here are some examples:
Nation-building drama
A ten-minute drama commissioned by the government of a leading south east
Asian nation as part of a new museum about the country’s history. Audiences
stood in the centre of a room containing four stages with actors performing
scenes depicting different periods. Real stage scenery was combined with a
film and video backdrop which the actors operated with hidden controls. Tony
Coll wrote, cast and directed the show.
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The living museum
A spin-off from the nation-building drama was that Tony was asked to devise
and script ‘living museum’ characters, actors in costume and in
character who would form part of the museum exhibit and interact with the
public as they told their story. This is not unknown in the UK, but had never
been done in Southeast Asia.
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Reach for the sky
The public unveiling of a new fighter plane featured overalled employees in
a converted hangar ‘pulling’ the plane through dry ice and a gauze
veil into a bank of audience seating which miraculously parted like the Red
Sea. At the same time lights and music synchronised with a video – scripted
by Tony Coll – played on the walls, as the plane passed out of the hangar.
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There’s a
hole in my bucket
‘Acme Buckets’, a comedy play by Tony Coll, was performed live in
two locations as part of a motivational roadshow by a leading general insurance
company. The idea was to stimulate debate on inter-departmental communication
and staff initiative by creating an imaginary company, Acme Buckets, whose
management problems were comically exaggerated.
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Tony Coll has also scripted events based on Star Trek, Victorian England,
the early days of aviation and life on a space station.
