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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik : Deep Sea Explorer
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"Alvin Sputnik is Earth's last hope. The seas have risen, billions have died, and those who remain live on farms on top of skyscrapers, on top of mountains. The scientists have tried everything. Floating islands sank, space probes found nothing, and the giant sponges, visible from the moon, are now rotting icons of failure.

Now science and humanity are turning to the oceans themselves. It is up to Alvin Sputnik to venture through the mysterious depths to find a place for the human race to live in peace once more. "The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik" uses a unique blend of mime, puppetry and transformative animation to explore the next and oldest frontier, the deep blue sea.' Source: www.pacs.org.au/ (Sighted 22/02/2010).

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Production Details

  • First produced by Weeping Spoon Productions at the Blue Room Studio, 53 James Street, Northbridge, Perth, 12 -30 May 2009.


    Produced by Last Great Hunt and presented by Monkey Baa from 15 September 2018.

    Producer: Sarah Weber.

    Performer: Sam Longley.


    Produced by Last Great Hunt and presented by Hothouse Theatre, 11-12 October 2018.

    Performer: Tim Watts.

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Works about this Work

Take a Bow, You Deserve It Jason Blake , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 December 2011; (p. 11)
Puppet Masterpiece Brings Enduring Love to a Bleak World Alexander Fynes-Clinton , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 - 15 May 2011; (p. 14)

— Review of The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik : Deep Sea Explorer Tim Watts , Arielle Gray , 2009 single work drama
Performance Market Sells Acts With Its Perfect Pitch Michaela Boland , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 26 February 2010; (p. 16)
Puppet Masterpiece Brings Enduring Love to a Bleak World Alexander Fynes-Clinton , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 14 - 15 May 2011; (p. 14)

— Review of The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik : Deep Sea Explorer Tim Watts , Arielle Gray , 2009 single work drama
Performance Market Sells Acts With Its Perfect Pitch Michaela Boland , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 26 February 2010; (p. 16)
Take a Bow, You Deserve It Jason Blake , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 16 December 2011; (p. 11)
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