The Ayn Lady is about to visit Ovalhouse (2nd-5th July @ 7.45pm) as part of the ‘First Bites’ season, a final work-in-progress sharing and the end of its R&D journey…
Check out the promo below for some context:
This Sixties pastiche has the combined touch of Carry Ons, Ealing Comedies and Boulting Brothers movies and focuses on a woefully incompetent market research company and their attempts to re-launch a cure-all product… Fantastic songs and nutty characters, it’s a fast-moving hoot-and-a-half. And I channel Pat Coombs.
The Opinion Makers
By Brian Mitchell & Joseph Nixon
(Big Daddy Vs. Giant Haystacks, Those Magnificent Men and Seven Studies in Salesmanship)
The Latest Music Bar
14 – 17 Manchester Street, Brighton BN2 1TF; Tel: 01273 687171
As part of BRIGHTON FRINGE
Monday 5th, Tuesday 6th & Sunday 11th May
8pm (lasts two hours including interval)
£10/£8 (concs.) Box Office: 01273 917272. Book here
Click here for our promo
See audience comments from our previews
‘Leaves the audience crying with laughter’ – Colchester Gazette
‘Sublime heights of ridiculousness’ – Public Reviews
© Paul Blakemore
The newly formed Barker & Larkin productions (Emma Kilbey and Caroline Hunt) are pleased as punch to have been selected for Ferment at Bristol Old Vic with our new piece; The Will of Ayn… Working alongside talented performer Henry Garrett (Zero Dark Thirty, The Wicker Tree, Skins) we’re approaching the final hurdle of a complex and knotty R&D process, looking at the undeniable impact of the Russian author, philosopher and founder of Objectivism on those around her as well as the political scene. Controversial! And grimly fascinating, as Rand’s ideas continue to resonate and influence today’s economic world stage.
© Paul Blakemore
We’re on at 8.15 in Bristol Old Vic studio on Wednesday 29th January and tickets are £5. Have a peek at our show and a mosey at what else is on here: Ferment – Bristol Old Vic
Very much looking forward to enjoying some festive familial ding dongs and merrily on hi-jinx with Sue MacLaine and guests… We hit the Dome Studio in Brighton 13th and 14th December.
‘Old time vaudevillian and tap dancer Sid Lester helped make Variety great; now he wants one last shot. With the help of his aspirational daughter Valerie, he conjures a Variety evening full of festive fun. As Sid’s old mucker, the avant-garde director Tadeusz Kantor once said, ‘what can be seen on stage is the act of creation, the process of memory, the fate of the artist and a work of art’.
Sid Lester’s Christmas Special expands the concept to take in Christmas carols, brass bands, talking birds, ventriloquism, nifty footwork, paper chains, old school patter and audience participation. With Emma Kilbey and chums.’
Tickets here
This brand new comedy double-act with writer and theatre-maker Sue MacLaine will debut at the Edinburgh Fringe 2013 at Summerhall, ailment August 19th-25th @ 1.30pm.
Old time vaudevillian, drugstore tap dancer and acrobat, Sid Lester helped make variety great and now he wants one last shot. He is resentfully assisted by his daughter Valerie, eager to launch a new career as singer/impressionist and leave her job as a taxicab controller behind. Sid’s performance style is influenced by his old chums Tadeusz Kantor and Tommy Cooper; Valerie’s by Shirley Bassey. Together they attempt to entertain with balloons, a raffle, talking birds, toffees, some singing, jokes, a shuffle step hop, guest spots and interactive games.
Joyce Macmillan’s Scotsman review here.
