Man Engine – The Resurrection Tour 2018
- Client: Golden Tree Productions CIC
- Project Value: £750,000
- Duration: 9 months
- Location: UK tour
- Client: Golden Tree Productions CIC
- Project Value: £750,000
- Duration: 9 months
- Location: UK tour
Overview
We Are Ease have been involved with the recent extravaganza that was Man Engine, the largest mechanical puppet ever constructed in Britain! The Man Engine steamed the length of the Cornish Mining Landscape in the summer of 2016, unearthing a huge amount of passion and pride and being named ‘Best Art Project’ by the National Lottery Awards. This sparked the Miner’s Resurrection Tour in Easter 2018, and creator and artistic director of Golden Tree Productions Will Coleman requested the assistance from We Are Ease with providing the project management.
On Saturday 31st March 2018, the Man Engine, powered by a brand new Volvo L220 Front Loader supplied by sponsors Volvo, re-appeared where he was last seen before the resurrection tour: at Geevor Tin Mine in the ultimate West. Then he headed East; on Easter Sunday 1st April he appeared at Heartlands. On Easter Monday 2nd April he visited Cornwall’s show ground near Wadebridge.
He crossed the Tamar to Tavistock on Tuesday 3rd April, and then travelled to the old coal-mining town of Radstock in Somerset on Friday 6th April, before heading onward to five large events in the mining communities of South Wales and then northwards to Ironbridge, Elsecar, Wentworth Woodhouse, Hillhead Quarrying and Construction Expo 2018, then Willington near Durham. And a brief return to Wales with a special appearance at the Volvo Ocean Race at the Cardiff leg.
Ease Project Manager Torquil Home was brought into the Man Engine project early on and quickly evolved his role to be a pivotal and essential member of the core team, with coordination of a very large and varied delivery team: crew, designers, consultants, puppeteers, production, marketing, funders, councils, sponsors, event, haulage, emergency services, and health and safety.
Key Project Stages
✓ Large scale, high-profile event
✓ Event project management
✓ Coordination of a very large delivery team
✓ Nation wide event
✓ Challenging budget control
Will Coleman, Founder and Director, Golden Tree Productions said:
“I wished I lived on Planet Torquil; it all seems pink and rosy there! No matter what bizarre stresses and complications the Man Engine threw at him, Torqs fielded everything with a smile and a solution-focused approach. A pleasure to work with.”
