BIG DADDY Vs. GIANT HAYSTACKS

We were delighted that scenes from our prize-winning comedy Big Daddy Vs. Giant Haystacks, and an interview with its writers, featured in the recent BBC4 Timeshift documentary ‘Wrestling’s Golden Age: Grapples, Grunts and Grannies’. You can view the clip here.

The play is available for booking autumn/winter 2013-14.

We also have a stable of wonderful stock shows available for booking, including our acclaimed tribute to the music of Freddie Phillips, ‘Trumpton Comes Alive!’

TRUMTPON COMES ALIVE!

There are great shows from renowned comedian Joanna Neary, Sony-Award-winning writer and raconteur David Bramwell, and acclaimed writer/performer Emma Kilbey.

Please click on the images, or go to ‘SHOWS’, for full details.

JO NEARY: YOUTH CLUB

No. 9 BUS TO UTOPIA

SHIFT

LOVE IN THE BLUE PETER GARDEN

A play in three acts by Brian Mitchell
(co-writer of New Perspectives’ hit touring show ‘Those Magnificent Men’)

Associate Director: Guy Picot
Co-developed with The Nightingale Theatre and The Yvonne Arnaud Mill Studio
Supported by Arts Council England

See Pdf for detailed information about this show

“An unqualified success…This was drama of the highest quality – delivered with energy, pace and good timing. A real triumph.” – David Green, East Anglian Daily Times

“Two brilliant actors, sharp dialogue and spotless writing and direction make this a highly entertaining, very funny production.” – Rachel Pegg, Latest 7

Fogeyish scriptwriter Philip and eager, young art student Kath hover frustratingly in that awkward region somewhere between friendship and love. He is twenty-nine going on forty, and she a nineteen-year-old with far more experience and wisdom than her years. Over the course of three meetings over two years, they jockey, vie, scheme and battle for position, with comical, and sometimes brutal, results.

Can the romantic setting of the Blue Peter Italian Garden bring the outcome Philip so ardently desires? Or will his hopes remain sunken?

‘Love in The Blue Peter Garden’ is a touching, hilarious and often cringe-inducing portrayal of just how rubbish humans can be in the pursuit of love. Written by the acclaimed comedy writer, Brian Mitchell (co-writer of New Perspectives’ hit play ‘Those Magnificent Men’ and BBC4′s ‘The Ornate Johnsons’), its flexible staging, brilliant young cast, intimate style and universal subject make it ideally suited to rural touring.

“It was so well written and the acting was so good…There was humour and pathos in equal measure and plenty of empathy with the characters.” – Susan Hawkes, Evening Star

“Gifted with witty one-liners…An unpretentious play that many audiences will enjoy due to its focus on witty dialogue and sharp characterisation…a well-paced compelling story of tantalising love.” – Wilf Arasaratnam, BBC Suffolk

IN DEVELOPMENT WITH CREATE THEATRE

You’re an individual.

You like to do your own thing.

Nobody can tell you what to do.

You walk your own path and make your own rules.

That’s why you MUST see ‘Seven Studies In Salesmanship’ by award-winning playwrights Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon.

These seven short plays, first presented to wide acclaim in a rehearsed reading by Brighton Dome and Festival Productions, have been hand-tooled from the finest materials flown in from distant climes, utilising the very latest
state-of-the-art technology.

Together they form the ideal introduction and user’s manual to the high-octane world of Salesmanship, covering every angle from the hard sell to celebrity endorsement.

Mitchell and Nixon are market-leading purveyors of high quality, blue chip, user-friendly theatre. Just read what the press have said about some of their work:

“Truly ingenious, genuinely funny”
East Anglian Daily Times on ‘Spy’

“Writing that would win applause from Henry James’ grave”
The Scotsman on ‘The Agent’

“All their plays mix uproarious comedy and deep seriousness in ways that lesser writers would never be able to pull off”
Philip Reeve Blog

Now developed in partnership with Create Theatre and performed by Radio 4 regular David Moundfield, the Maydays’ Heather Urquart and Jennifer Rowe, and ‘Treason Show’ stalwart Daniel Beales, this is a compact, easy-to-assemble show, handy for those small, out-of-the-way venues other shows just cannot reach.

Seven Studies In Salesman. Go on – live a little.

Warning: May cause palpitations, dizziness, and shortness of breath.

For more information, or to book this show, please email Foundry Group

IN DEVELOPMENT FOR AUTUMN 2012

A new comedy in five acts for five actors by
Louise Law and Brian Mitchell

Developed with
The Nightingale Theatre

“An incredibly engaging piece of theatre…a darkly humorous chamber piece, which follows the traditional three-act structure in a very satisfying way.”
- Andrew Wensum, Maddog Magazine.

“Tender, enchantingly funny and sad…this well-crafted script balances
the anguish with some great comic lines.”
- Lynne Mortimer, East Anglian Daily Times

Set in a “Deep South” themed burger restaurant somewhere in Worthing in August 1987, this new comedy drama follows one chaotic day in the life of its nineteen-year-old manager, Helena, and her battles with booze, her domineering parents’ disastrous marriage, unruly staff, a Yugoslavian hen party, suicidal impulses, an absentee boss, the not-wholly-unwanted attentions of the waiter, Mud Pies, and the meat order, as she learns that running away from home is not quite the same thing as escaping your family.

Originally presented as a rehearsed reading at Pulse Festival to rave reviews, ‘Mississippi, Worthing’ is an original and hilarious exploration
of the darker side of family relationships that just about everyone will recognize.

“The perfect British comedy: Funny, wise, and set in Worthing.”
- Philip Reeve (author of ‘Mortal Engines’)

For more information, or to book this show, please email Foundry Group