Big Daddy Vs. Giant Haystacks
A BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION COMEDY
WINNER:
Best Theatre Production – Buxton Festival Fringe Awards
Fringe Guru Editor’s Choice Award Brighton Fringe
Latest 7 Award for Best Actor (for Ross Gurney-Randall) Brighton Festival & Fringe
NOMINATIONS:
Best Actor – Buxton Festival Fringe Awards
(Ross Gurney-Randall & David Mounfield)
Best New Writing – Buxton Festival Fringe Awards
In co-production with
By
Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon
(writers of Edinburgh hit ‘Those Magnificent Men’)
WATCH THE CLIP FROM THE BBC4 “TIMESHIFT” DOCUMENTARY
“Fascinatingly funny…Both hysterical and historically accurate. ****” – Fringe Review
“A stormer of a show. Who’d have thought 1980’s wrestling could make such moving theatre?****”
– Richard Stamp, Fringe Guru
Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks Information Pack (See production shots here.)
WATCH A TRAILER FOR THE PLAY HERE.
At 4pm every Saturday, from 1976 to 1988, tens of millions of Britons, and countless more world-wide, were in the grip of an extraordinary sports phenomenon: watching two fat men (aka Shirley Crabtree and Martin Ruane) pretend to fight each other. This is their story.
This ‘British Heavyweight Champion Comedy’, by the writers of New Perspectives’ hit play ‘Those Magnificent Men’, brings back to grunting, grappling life these two hugely popular battling behemoths and the bizarre world they bestrode. With an “all-star cast of thousands”, including Dickie Davies, Paul McCartney, Chris Tarrant, Frank Sinatra, Princess Margaret, and Greg Dyke, this ambitious, touching, hilarious two-hander conjures up a whole nation during its most colourful era.
Featuring the winner of The Latest 7 Award for Best Male Performer 2011 Ross Gurney-Randall, and, fresh from Sky’s cult hit sit-com ‘This Is Jinsy’, David Mounfield.
You shall be moved.
Interview with director and co-writer Brian Mitchell
“As funny as we’ve come to expect from Mitchell and Nixon, but it’s never just funny: they have a deep sympathy for the people they write about.*****”
– Philip Reeve, The Solitary Bee
“Has both the smell of sweat and success…Brilliantly commercial…
hugely popular and entertaining…will appeal to both theatre and wrestling fans.****”
– Andrew Kay, Latest 7
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You can hear a full interview about the show here on Fringe Review
