Charm Offensive Tour 2013/14

John Mackay and David Johnson present
Fascinating Aïda
Charm Offensive Tour 2013/14
Director
Pip Broughton
Choreographer
Alan Burkitt
Fascinating Aïda
Charm Offensive Tour
Following a sold-out 2012 tour, three Olivier Award nominations and over 10
million YouTube hits for Cheap Flights (their infamous anthem to budget air
travel), Dillie Keane, Adèle Anderson and Liza Pulman celebrate 30 years of
Fascinating Aïda with a brand new show. Expect topical new songs hot off
the press, plus some outrageous old favourites, as Fascinating Aïda continue
to grow old disgracefully!
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Dear Friends of Fascinating Aïda,
I hope you have all had a wonderful year and
wish you the best for 2014. As you know, we have
spent the latter part of 2013 performing our new
show, Charm Offensive, the length and breadth
of this fair land. We have visited England,
Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. After a
few days’ welcome respite, we shall be performing
at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank, from
22 December until 10 January.
To book, go to
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
On 13 February, we begin another tour so, if we
didn’t visit your town this year, we may well be
coming your way in 2014. Details of the tour are
on our website,
www.fascinatingaida.co.uk.
If you are on Facebook, why not befriend us on
the Fascinating Aïda page? Although there are
other FA sites on FB, this is the only page on
which all official news is posted.
We hope to see you very soon. We are always in
the foyer after the show, signing merchandise,
ticket stubs, body parts, etc.
Love from Dillie
Dillie was destined for higher things. A
doctor's daughter, she was nicely brought up in a
well-ordered household where the 'f' word was
flip, and even that was barely tolerated. Her future
was mapped out for her - she would marry a nice
stockbroker and have four jolly children called
Tarquin, Parquin, Marquin and Cassandra. She'd
chair a few local committees, excel at golf and
bridge, and die 85 years later wondering what it was
all about.
However, that well-ordered household was in
Portsmouth and Dillie found herself inexorably
drifting down to the funfair whenever she
could, walking round the docks and hanging
round the circus on the Common in
summer. She revelled in the earthy
poetry of the sailors' language and lurked
outside the stage door of the Kings Theatre. As
soon as she was old enough, she learned to play
bar billiards and darts, and drink like an able seaman.
She was thoroughly scolded for all these activities,
but she couldn't help herself, and as soon as she
was able, she threw off the shackles of the haut
bourgeoisie and headed for the tatty, gimcrack,
uncertain world of the theatre, and you can still
hear the funfair in some of the tunes she writes.
She considers the smell of the sea and the sound of
the fairground organ two of the best things in the
world.
So she never married, nor did Tarquin and his
siblings ever pop out of her. Nor did she ever
inhabit the large, detached house in Godalming,
or raise money for the new church roof. She did
eventually find an Irish farmer in Oxfordshire who
puts up with her eccentricities in exchange for her
cooking and gardening skills.
Her passions in life are her man, family and
friends, her dogs, and her gardening, and in particular,
her fruit-growing. Oh, and Fascinating Aïda, and
going to the theatre. And bottling fruit, and making
pickled eggs when the chickens give her a glut.
Occasionally, she looks at a large country mansion
and thinks, "I was supposed to live there!" But she
wouldn't exchange her life for anyone or anything.
Above all, she won't die wondering.
Dillie Keane
Adèle's childhood was spent in Hampshire
and Somerset, living in quaintly-named villages such
as Sway, West Chinnock, Babcary and Haselbury
Plucknett. The nearest bus stop was usually three
miles away, with two buses a day, so life was very
quiet. When she went to university in Birmingham,
she discovered the joys of urban living and regular
public transport; she's never looked back.
Joining Fascinating Aïda rescued her from a life
of drudgery, working as a secretary (and, before
that, as a civil servant). She is scared of heights,
which explains her penchant for hot air ballooning,
paragliding, bungee jumping, zip wiring and skydiving.
Scuba diving and freezing (nearly to death) in a
shark cage are enjoyable adjuncts. Alas, her poor
sense of balance has ruled out water skiing or
gymnastic beam work. White water rafting still
awaits, however.
Her father's love of The Goons and Flanders
and Swann introduced her to the comic song; his
love of opera to fine singing. Alas, her failure to
grasp even the rudiments of Italian precluded a
career in this field. Similarly, her dalliances with the
cello and piano came to naught, although she can
still play "A Pavane To The Earl Of Salisbury" by
William Byrd, rather badly on the piano..
Her early culinary exploits were deemed a
danger to society, so she wisely abandoned her
kitchen stove years ago. Luckily, Dillie has cooked
her hundreds of meals over the past thirty years,
for which she is extremely grateful. She is currently
working her way through Dillie's chutneys, jams and
medlar jelly.
An early visit to Romania, when the Ceausescus
were still in power, instilled a desire to visit more
Eastern Bloc countries, which she continues to do
in her spare time. Soviet brutalist architecture tugs
at her heartstrings. She lives in East London and is
delighted with the changes wrought by the 2012
Olympics, not least the Westfield Shopping Centre's
extensive food court.
Adèle Anderson
Liza was born, at an early age into a trunk and bearing
an uncanny resemblance to Tommy Steele, it was inevitable
that Liza would forge a career upon the stage. She began
at the age of five by appearing as a supporting role, in an
advert for ‘Happy Face’ biscuits; an experience which would
shape not only her future performing aspirations, but also
her life long love of jam-based, personality-led cookies.
After a brief, if uneventful period at boarding school,
Liza returned home to north London to study on
Saturdays as a junior at the Royal College of Music,
before going on to train for a further six years at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama. After graduating, she
joined The Glyndebourne opera where she performed
as a member of the company, and in small principal
roles in numerous operas for three years. After leaving
Glyndebourne she was invited to join the D’oyly Carte and
Carl Rosa companies with whom she went on to perform
leading roles in various Gilbert and Sullivan and Offenbach
operettas.
Despite what seemed to be a perfectly sensible and
elegant career, it was at this point that Liza realised that
the call to cabaret was proving louder to her ears than
Siegfried’s Horn in the second act of Wagner’s opera,
Gotterdammerung. Like a creature from the Hobbit, she
rose to the challenge and eschewed the world of classical
music, heading instead, for the bright lights of the West
End. On arrival however, she discovered that a few of the
bulbs were missing. Undeterred, she pressed on, adding all
manner of roles and skills to her CV, before a conflation
of events brought her to the attention of one Dillie Keane
who was, once again, on the never-ending search for a
soprano. After an evening spent in Ms Keane’s front room,
auditioning in front of her and a very poker-faced Dame
Adèle Anderson, she was invited to join the fold and the
rest, as they say, is history.
In March, Liza will have been with the group for ten
years, and is hoping for a small party, a large bonus and a
carriage clock. Failing any of these things she will be happy
enough going with her two colleagues and great friends
Dillie and Adèle to see yet another final tour of some
ageing songwriter or a contemporary German dance
orchestra playing Prussian songs from the 1920’s and
30’s, and finishing the evening in a small restaurant with a
beautiful bottle of wine, probably white for her and Dillie,
and most definitely a Shiraz for the Dame.
Liza Pulman
••••The Team
CREATIVE
PIP BROUGHTON
Director
Between 1980 and 1995 Pip worked
as a theatre director. Posts held
include Artistic Directorships of
Croydon Warehouse, Paines Plough
and Nottingham Playhouse. Over
this period she directed over 50
plays, many of them new plays, but
also music theatre, national tours,
West End and productions in
Europe.
Since 1995 she has been working in
film and television. Directing work
has included several single films for
Channel 4, a feature film, several
primetime drama series and recently
a documentary series.
Over the last three years Pip has
been working as a TV Creative
Producer, having produced 17
dramas in the series Playhouse
Presents for Sky Arts.
Festival Theatre), Featured Artist in
‘Ol Blue Eyes’ (Alhambra Theatre,
Dunfermline), Andy Lee in ‘42nd
Street’ (Chichester Festival
Theatre/Curve Theatre Leicester),
The Prince in Adam Coopers’ ‘Shall
We Dance’ (Sadlers Wells Theatre),
‘CATS’ (Understudy Rum Tum Tugger
and Munkqstrap - German Tour),
Featured Artist in ‘Viva La Diva’ ( UK
Arena Tour and DVD Release), ‘We
Will Rock You’ (Dominion Theatre,
London),
‘Movin’ Out’ (Understudy Tony - The
Apollo Victoria Theatre , London),
‘Crazy For You’ (Understudy Bobby
Child - UK Tour), ‘One Touch Of
Venus’ (Opera North - UK tour and
Sadlers Wells),‘The Ha’penny Bridge’
(The Point, Dublin),‘Santa Claus The
Musical’ (The Mayflower Theatre,
Southampton), ‘Children Will Listen’
(Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), and Tap
Soloist in’Sondheims 75th Birthday
Celebrations’ (Hackney Empire /
BBC Radio).
Television and Commercial Credits
‘How Do You Solve A Problem Like
Maria?’, ‘Dancing In The Streets’,
‘Children In Need’, and ‘Blue
Peter’ (BBC), ‘An Audience With
Kylie Minogue’ ITV) and Assistant
Choreographer for ‘So You Think You
Can Dance’ 2011. (BBC)
ALAN BURKITT
Choreography
Alan was born in Canterbury and
started his dance training at the
Deborah Capon School where he
won All England Tap Dancer of the
Year. He went on to graduate from
Performers College.
Theatre Credits
Original West End Cast of ‘Top
Hat’ (Understudy Jerry Travers),
‘Singing in The Rain’ (Chichester
MIKE ROBERTSON
Lighting Designer
In 2010 he was nominated for a
What’s On Stage Design award for
his design for On The Waterfront
(Theatre Royal Haymarket). Recent
credits include 1001 Nights (Saudi
Arabia), The Dead Wait (Park
Theatre), Keeler (Charing Cross
Theatre), Piano Piano (Cottiers),
Hairspray (Kuala Lumpur/Singapore),
Volcano (Vaudeville Theatre and UK
Tour), Funny Peculiar (UK Tour), Dry
Rot (UK Tour), The Billie Holiday
Story (Charing Cross Theatre),
Parade (Old Vic Tunnels), Gibraltar
(Arcola Theatre), Fragile (Belgrade
Theatre, Coventry), Dear World
(Charing Cross Theatre), The Father
(Belgrade Theatre, Coventry),
Murder on the Nile (UK Tour),
Verdict (UK Tour) and Larkrise to
Candleford (UK Tour).Riccardo
Primo (Royal College of Music), The
Producers (Arts Ed), Six Actors in
Search of a Director (Charing Cross
Theatre, Directed by
Steven Berkoff), Death & Gardening
(UK Tour, Edinburgh Festival),
Oedipus (Nottingham Playhouse
and Edinburgh Festival), Third
Floor (Trafalgar Studios), Company
(Southwark Playhouse), Billy Liar
(West Yorkshire Playhouse), Cabaret
(Wilton’s Music Hall), Guys & Dolls
(Cambridge Arts Theatre), Educating
Rita (Watermill Theatre, Newbury),
Wolfboy (George Square Theatre,
Edinburgh), New Boy (Trafalgar
Studios), Hair (English Theatre,
Frankfurt), Too Close to the Sun
(Comedy Theatre), My Fair Lady
(Cambridge Arts Theatre), Anything
Goes (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Five
Guys Named Moe (English Theatre,
Frankfurt), Sunday in the Park With
George (Menier Chocolate Factory
and Wyndhams Theatre), Othello
(Birmingham Stage Company),
Sit and Shiver directed by Steven
Berkoff (Hackney Empire), Deathtrap
(English Theatre, Frankfurt), Seesaw
(Arts Ed), The Spring Proms (Royal
Albert Hall), Fascinating Aida (UK
Tour), The Glee Club (Bolton
Octagon and Cochrane Theatre)
••••The Team
and The Wood Demon (Playhouse
Theatre).
A graduate of the Guildhall School
Of Music and Drama he has lit
many a show in many a country and
also regionally, in the West End on
television and film with departures
into architectural projects culminating
in designing the lighting for the Virgin
Atlantic planes and the Airbus A380,
the biggest one to date.
He has just created the New Colour
Blue series for global giant Lee Filters.
One of the colours is now the 8th
highest selling in the world.
When not pointing lights at his favourite
girl group he cooks, builds things and
dreams of a life in the country with
dogs called Babs and Bunty.
PRODUCTION
DAVID JOHNSON
pictured above
& JOHN MACKAY
(see 'Backroom Boys later in the
programme)
Producers
Recent credits include: Fascinating
Aida: Cheap Flights, Stewart Lee:
Much A Stew About Nothing
and Carpet Remnant World,
Sandi Toksvig: My Valentine; The
Rubberbandits and Alexei Sayle’s
return to stand up after 18 years.
www.passwordproductions.co.uk
COMPANY STAGE
MANAGER/S
until December 4th Robyn Clogg
from December 5th Lucy Barton
Spring tour 2014 Ella Bolton
MARC ‘Sultan of Sound’
COHEN
Sound Design
Marc has been behind the sound
controls for ‘Fascinating Aida’ on
their ‘Never Ending Tour’ for the last
18 years, mixing intricate harmonies
and amplifying every word to the
audience.
He has also toured extensively abroad
as a sound engineer with the ‘Tap
Dogs’ dance show.
When he is not ‘on the road’ he
spends his time on a farm in the
Algarve where he studies Dudeism
and plays guitar.
years, and have loved every minute
of it. With Gavin Barker as Manager
and Steven Greenhalgh as Agent,
they have arranged for the girls to
play locations as varied as Singapore,
New York, Kenya, Israel and the
Channel Islands.
They oversee all aspects of
Fascinating Aida’s work, including
corporates and private parties - so
if you want to enquire about their
availability then email on assistant@
gavinbarkerassociates.co.uk
GBA is a boutique management
and agency representing an eclectic
mix of talent covering all areas
of the entertainment industry
- actors, musical performers, TV
talent and theatre creatives. Other
clients include Vanessa Redgrave,
John Barrowman and Craig Revel
Horwood. They also develop and
build new talent, with Fascinating
Aida’s choreographer Alan Burkitt
being an example.
GAVIN BARKER
ASSOCIATES
Management | Agent
Back row - Katie Harper &
Steven Greenhalgh
Front Row - Gavin Barker &
Michelle Burke
Gavin Barker Associates have been
managing Fascinating Aida for over 15
•••• Unsung Heroes
NICK BATTLE
Merchandise and Fan Club
GARY RENNIE
Facebook Administrator
Nick first saw Fascinating Aïda when the BBC filmed
a biography of the group for their ‘40 minutes’ series.
That was back in 1985. Smitten with the fabulous
quality of the music and humour, he became Life
President of the British Association for Fans of
Fascinating Aïda (BAFFA) shortly afterwards. It is a
position he has treasured ever since.
Nick processes orders of all CDs and DVDs from
Newbury where he has a publishing company
(Countryside Books). He will reply to all emails about
the group from anyone who writes in.
His five minutes of fame came when he made a
surprise appearance on stage at the Wyvern, Swindon,
to present flowers to the girls in a Little Chef ’s
costume. It was almost impossible to see ahead from
inside and was seriously hot. But it was huge fun, as is
everything to do with F.A.
Gary first saw Fascinating Aïda at the Edinburgh Festival
Fringe in 1984 when he was still an impressionable
teenager and has never been quite the same since. At
the time, he thought that they were the most glamorous
older women that he had seen and he still feels the same
way today - he’s a lot less impressionable but they’re just
as glamorous and only slightly older.
In 1997 he set up the group’s first website and ran it for
the next ten years before handing the job over to a new
Webmaster. With the advent of social networking, he was
called out of retirement to look after the FA Facebook
page.
In real life, he works in IT at an independent school in
Edinburgh where he changes passwords and drinks a
large volume of tea. His other interests include collecting
and using old film cameras and working on an old van
that he bought by accident on eBay.
Charm Offensive
ACT 1
ACT 2
We’re Next
Allo, Bonjour Monsieur!
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
We’re Not Done Yet
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Ofsted Song
or A Teacher's Lot Is Not A Happy One Music: Sir Arthur Sullivan • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson / Pulman
Boomerang Kid
Little Girls In Pink
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Spending Nigel’s Bonus
Beetroot Song
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Dogging
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson / Randwyck
Second Bulgarian Song Cycle 2013
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
First Bulgarian Song Cycle 2013
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane, Anderson / Pulman
Double Dip
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Out of Practice
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Taboo
Joyce
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson / Cutts
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Old Home
Facebook Blues
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson / Pulman
Prisoner Of Gender
Look Mummy No Hands
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Cheap Flights
Down With The Kids
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson
Music: Michael Roulston • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson / Young
Your Home Town
Music: Keane • Lyrics: Keane / Anderson / Pulman
The Daily Dillie
Gossip, Chutney & Hobnobbing
Charmingly Offensive
... Fascinating Aïda
Starring two old trouts
and a hatchling!
Well, since I have at last started writing
this programme, I shall start with my
own life, which is a subject very dear
A glut of fr
uit from t
he farm !
to my heart. I live on a farm and my
!!
personal enthusiasm is growing fruit,
and finding ways to preserve it. See
above. My beloved, known as Brian to
millions if not to me, is a farmer and
that’s him on a tractor, right, doing what
every farmer likes to do when
the sun shines.
No I don’t know what that
picture of a football is
doing on this page, I hate
football. Anyhow, keep on
Making
reading, it might get more
Hay
interesting...
Another
celebration
very soon,
woo hoo!
Fans of the group will
know that we have earned
ourselves a reputation as
the Spinal Tap of the cabaret
world, as soprano after
soprano has spontaneously
combusted and disappeared
into relative obscurity. And
that’s just the ones you
know about…!
However, what people don’t
realize is that Miss Liza
Pulman actually joined us
very nearly TEN years ago!
On March 4th, 2004, she
did her first gig with us at
the Dulwich Picture Gallery
and I have to say that her
arrival in the group ushered
in a period of peace and
stability. Obviously, we were
not working all that time: I
have to be honest and say
the constant upheaval made
me very downhearted and I
couldn’t see a future for the
group. But then the 25th
anniversary loomed, and it
occurred to me that she had
never had her own show,
and I’d always promised
Adèle we would celebrate
25 years. And it has been a
delight since then.
Obviously, she took a year’s
sabbatical for personal
reasons, but we always
prayed she’d come back!
Thanks for ten great years,
Liza, it’s going to be one hell
of a party!
Interesting facts
We discovered that you need not worry
about your health in Sark. This modest wee
hoose is the local medical centre on Sark,
and we are assured that it is entirely set up
for anyone to have open-heart surgery.
So if you’ve got a dicky ticker, and you are
thinking of having a holiday on Sark, don’t
worry, you can have that op if it gives out
suddenly. Which it might very well do, as
hauling your suitcases around the island
(nae transport) nearly gave all us heart
failure.
It’s been our ambition to play
all the playable islands off the
cost of Great Britain. We haven’t
succeeded yet, but we keep trying.
So far, we have played:
Jersey
Guernsey
Alderney
Sark
The Isle of Man
The Isle of Wight
St Mary’s, Scilly Isles
And we keep hoping
that the Scottish
Highlands and
Islands will ask us
to do a tour!
This is a picture of
Adèle and Liza on
the Isle of Sark.
Very nice too.
Glamorous Life...
This is us in South Africa, having
a very glamorous lunch with our
good friend Tony O’Sullivan. I
have known Tony since I was
a bright young thing and both
Adèle and Liza have taken the old
rogue to their hearts. He spends
part of the year in Cape Town and
has been there on both our visits.
Here we are pictured having been
most generously wined and dined
at Uitzig, the No.1 restaurant in
the Cape.
1. I had crab to start with,
followed by sweetbreads. If ever
I see sweetbreads on a menu, I
always eat them. Super yum!
2. You can usually rely on Liza
Pulman to go for the fish option,
although she is not 100% reliable
in this regard. Here she ate fish.
3. Adèle likes it meaty. Pie
on the menu means Pie on
the Dame’s plate. Pie wasn’t
available, so she had liver. She
loves liver.
We had an awful lot of wine that
day. Liza knows more about wine
than me, and Adèle always drinks
Shiraz
... and 'Hobnobbing'
Let’s face it, hobnobbing is a thing we hardly ever do.
When have you seen us in the pages of Hello! Or gracing
the social pages of Vogue, Harpers & Queen, et al? Where
are the fancy invitations to openings, first nights, launches
and vernissages? Well, of course, the truth is that we
couldn’t do our job if we couldn’t take the piss out of the
kind of people who like all that sort of mullarkey. However,
occasionally we do get to meet people we really respect,
and we were incredibly proud to meet the great April
Ashley (below). And we had the most wonderful lunch in
Cape Town with the legendary Joe Brown (below). He’s a
wonderful raconteur, a brilliant musician and performer,
and a delightful man.
Backroom
Boys
People often ask us why our tour
dates are booked as follows…
Truro, Aberdeen, Birmingham,
Eastbourne, Liverpool… That’s
because Bookers Don’t Have
Maps. However, the man on
the left is our producer John
Mackaaaaayyyyy (pronounced
that way because he is Scottish)
and he bought our booker a map.
Since then, our tours have been
rather logical with nice short
journeys.
1) The man on the left is our coproducer John Mackay; he works
with his business partner who is
known as David Johnson. That's
because it is his name
2) The man on the right is not
David Johnson, he is my partner
Brian, although obviously that’s
not his name.
3) I don't know who the person
walking away is.
Dangerous
Sports!
The Dame is nothing if not a
thrill-seeker. She likes to spend
her holidays in places no-one
else would ever think of going.
Above, you can see her quaffing
a litre of Bratislavan beer with
dear old Vladimir Ulyanov in the
background. She tells us her next
trip is going to be to North Korea.
Just fancy! (No thank you!).
In addition to that, she loves to hurl
herself off things, into things and
out of things. I don’t want too much
detail, as I am one of life’s rabbits
and prefer the comfort of my own
burrow thank you very much. This
is a picture of her gleefully about
to step off the Auckland Sky Tower.
Bonkers.
Dillie's
Chutney
Recipe
The thing about making
chutney is that it is not an exact
science at all, unlike baking.
The great canard about it is
that you can't tell what the final
result will be until you taste it
in three months time when it
has matured and proved. This
is pretty much nonsense. Yes,
it matures and proves, but if it's
bitter or vinegary when you pot
it up, no amount of storing in a
darkened cupboard will make
it nice. If, however, it's quite
good when you pot it up, it'll
be great when you finally eat
it at Christmas. So feel free to
adjust the taste before you pot
up. And remember, everyone's
taste is different. I don't like my
food too vinegary, other people
love vinegar. There is no right
or wrong.
The other thing to remember is
that you can substitute freely.
If a recipe calls for sultanas,
and you don't have any in the
house, any other dried fruit will
do just as well.
I have a glut of redcurrants
every year - foolishly, I planted
two bushes when one would
have done me nicely. So
I hunted on the net for a
redcurrant chutney because
there's only so much redcurrant
jelly one family can get through
in a year. I found one, and
it was not great. Runny and
sharp. However, by dint of
much adjustment, adaptation
and tasting, this ended up lovely
and Christmassy.
Redcurrant Chutne
y.
Stage 1
500 ml redcurrant
s, taken off the stem
75 ml granulated su
gar
3 tbsp cider vinega
r (I use Aspalls)
The original recipe
suggested that I bo
il this until the
currants start to di
sintegrate, then si
eve and press to
extract the juice.
I did, but I don't th
ink I would have
minded the pips.
Stage 2
1 tbsp veg oil
2 tbsp mustard se
eds
20 black pepperco
rns
12 whole cloves
1 cinnamon stick
2 tbsp dried cinnam
on
1 tsp dried ginger
1 tsp salt
Fry these spices in
the oil for 1 minut
e, and then turn
the heat down low
and add...
3 large Spanish on
ions, diced and fry
this lot till the
onion is soft - but
not browned!
Stage 3
Now add the curran
t juice and a hefty
pinch of
cayenne pepper - or
half a teaspoonful
if you are
feeling brave. Then
add 1 packet mixed
cranberries
and raisins (any dr
ied fruit actually) an
d simmer,
covered, for 10 min
utes. Then uncove
r and simmer
some more, stirrin
g constantly until
it'
s reduced and
thickened. Check
for taste - add vine
gar or sugar,
whichever you thin
k it needs, and pot
up.
I see from my note
s that I think it mig
ht do well to
chuck some apple
in so I would do th
at at Stage 3. A
couple of Bramleys
chopped would ne
ver go amiss.
Happy chutting!
Adèle wishes
to be alone
Liza's cat
Liza multi-tasking
Jay Sharpe
Merchandise and
Transport Supremo
The Sultan of Sound
in the Scillies
Joanna Lumley?
Mmm
Us in Constanzia
(that's South
Africa you know!)
with
Alan Burkitt choreographer
and Gavin Barker
- Manager
Stepford Wives?
Cirque du Soleil
(auf Deutsch)
Fascinating Aïda - Never knowingly understood...
CREDITS
The list of people who work on this show is longer than people would ever
believe. It's not just the three of us up there on this stage who magic it all out of thin air - we have an incredible
team of creative people who work with us and we're very grateful for their care and attention.
Pip Broughton - Director
Alan Burkitt - Choreographer
Mike Robertson - Lighting Design
Marc Cohen - Sultan of Sound - Sound design
Thames Audio - additional sound design
Costumes:
Act One - Beatrice von Tresckow http://www.beatricevontresckow.com
Act Two - Join Clothes http://www.joinclothes.com/splash/
Dillie's red dress - Kevin Freeman
read more about him here :http://www.highbury.ac.uk/client/content.asp?Contentid=739&NewsId=1139)
Company Stage Manager
until December 4th - Robyn Clogg
from December 5th - Lucy Barton
Spring tour - Ella Bolton
Producers - John Mackay and David Johnson for Password Productions
http://www.passwordproductions.co.uk
Management - Gavin Barker for Gavin Barker Associates
http://www.gavinbarkerassociates.co.uk
Press and Marketing - Arabella Neville-Rolfe and Nick Boaden for Target Live
Tour Booking - Dave Mauchline and Lindsay Waistell
Merchandise and Transport Supremo - Jay Sharpe
Music Publishing and Record Producer - John Craig for First Night Records, with
Andy Pike and Martine Pugh
Maestro of Keeping All The Plates Spinning - Steven Greenhalgh at Gavin Barker Associates
Facebook Page Monitor and Internet Sleuth - Gary Rennie
Life President of BAFFA - Nick Battle
Webmaster - Rob Stokes
Photography - Johnny Boylan
Stylist - Martine Alexander
Programme Design - Judy Gibson
Team Dogs
Princess Maris Piper Desirée Pomme Boulangère Keane O'Neill
and her page Spudulike Baby-Jesus Bath Oliver Biscuit Benjamin Barker Toast-Hunter
Moondog Fitz-Poodle (known as Spud)