Sonny Tilders makes King Kong come alive IT'S quite something to have your hands on King Kong's joystick and to make the big fella blink. I'm working a sophisticated remote-control called a "voodoo rig," and up on stage is a 6m-tall, 1.2-tonne gorilla. I push a button, and Kong scrunches his simian nose. Twiddle another knob and his head turns a wide arc from stage left to stage right. He is undeniably massive. At full height he reaches almost to the top of the proscenium at Melbourne's Regent Theatre; big enough to be the star of his own show, King Kong, having its world premiere on June 15.