‘I have this illusion that I’m in charge of what’s going on, but there are all these bananas on stage, and they’re sort of landmines, waiting,” says Bill O’Neill, whose solo show The Amazing Banana Brothers chronicles the poignant attempt of two stuntman brothers to slip on the most banana peels. “I’ve gotten good at throwing myself around, but every once in a while, one of these suckers sends me crashing to the ground.”
Each show requires 80 fresh skins – for a month-long Edinburgh fringe run this summer, that added up to a lot of peeling. And cleaning. Weeks after doing the show at London’s Soho theatre, staff found an errant banana lodged in the ceiling.
