{"id":981,"date":"2011-09-20T10:44:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T10:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?page_id=981"},"modified":"2015-11-18T15:37:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T15:37:58","slug":"big-daddy-vs-giant-haystacks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?page_id=981","title":{"rendered":"Big Daddy Vs. Giant Haystacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1603\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1603\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BDvGH-Image-2013-flipped-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"BDvGH Image 2013 - flipped\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1603\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BDvGH-Image-2013-flipped-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BDvGH-Image-2013-flipped-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/BDvGH-Image-2013-flipped-950x1430.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION COMEDY<\/p>\n<p><strong>WINNER:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Best Theatre Production<\/strong> \u2013 Buxton Festival Fringe Awards<br \/>\n<strong>Fringe Guru Editor\u2019s Choice Award<\/strong> Brighton Fringe<br \/>\n<strong>Latest 7 Award for Best Actor<\/strong> (for Ross Gurney-Randall) Brighton Festival &#038; Fringe<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOMINATIONS:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Best Actor<\/strong> \u2013 Buxton Festival Fringe Awards<br \/>\n(Ross Gurney-Randall &#038; David Mounfield)<br \/>\n<strong>Best New Writing<\/strong> \u2013 Buxton Festival Fringe Awards<\/p>\n<p>In co-production with<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1536\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1536\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1KElogo_onwhite-copy-small.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1KElogo_onwhite copy small\" width=\"200\" height=\"60\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1536\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noelgay.com\/writers\/item\/159-brian-mitchell-joseph-nixon\"><br \/>\nBrian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon<\/a><br \/>\n(writers of Edinburgh hit &#8216;Those Magnificent Men&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMCeLCtcJLQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xRz0W0NsGds&#038;feature=youtu.be\">WATCH THE CLIP FROM THE BBC4 &#8220;TIMESHIFT&#8221; DOCUMENTARY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fascinatingly funny&#8230;Both hysterical and historically accurate. ****&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Fringe Review<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A stormer of a show. Who&#8217;d have thought 1980&#8217;s wrestling could make such moving theatre?****&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Richard Stamp, <strong>Fringe Guru<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1272' rel='attachment wp-att-1272'>Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks Information Pack<\/a> (See <strong>production shots<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.112842622118975.12825.112812722121965&#038;type=3\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH A TRAILER FOR THE PLAY<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&#038;v=zMCeLCtcJLQ#!\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1210\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1210\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/production-shot-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"production  shot 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/production-shot-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/production-shot-1-90x90.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>This &#8216;British Heavyweight Champion Comedy&#8217;, by the writers of New Perspectives&#8217; hit play &#8216;Those Magnificent Men&#8217;, brings back to grunting, grappling life these two hugely popular battling behemoths and the bizarre world they bestrode. With an &#8220;all-star cast of thousands&#8221;, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring the winner of <strong>The Latest 7 Award for Best Male Performer <\/strong>2011 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?page_id=715\">Ross Gurney-Randall<\/a>, and, fresh from Sky&#8217;s cult hit sit-com <strong>&#8216;This Is Jinsy&#8217;<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?page_id=723\">David Mounfield<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You <strong>shall<\/strong> be moved.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=digzBwbxJ2g&#038;feature=player_embedded' >Interview with director and co-writer Brian Mitchell<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1211\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1211\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/production-shot-2-343x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"production shot 2\" width=\"343\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/production-shot-2-343x286.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/production-shot-2-950x794.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/production-shot-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As funny as we&#8217;ve come to expect from Mitchell and Nixon, but it&#8217;s never just funny: they have a deep sympathy for the people they write about.*****&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; Philip Reeve, <strong>The Solitary Bee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHas both the smell of sweat and success&#8230;Brilliantly commercial&#8230;<br \/>\nhugely popular and entertaining&#8230;will appeal to both theatre and wrestling fans.****\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Andrew Kay, <strong>Latest 7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\" https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?page_id=1293\">Reviews of Big Daddy Vs. Giant Haystacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?attachment_id=1162' rel='attachment wp-att-1162'>Audience Comments on Big Daddy Vs. Giant Haystacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can hear a full interview about the show here on <a href=\"http:\/\/fringereview.wordpress.com\/about\/interviews\/listen-to-our-interview-with-brian-mitchell-here\/\">Fringe Review<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/?page_id=926\"><strong>PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A BRITISH HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION COMEDY WINNER: Best Theatre Production \u2013 Buxton Festival Fringe Awards Fringe Guru Editor\u2019s Choice Award Brighton Fringe Latest 7 Award for Best Actor (for Ross Gurney-Randall) Brighton Festival &#038; Fringe NOMINATIONS: Best Actor \u2013 Buxton Festival Fringe Awards (Ross Gurney-Randall &#038; David Mounfield) Best New Writing \u2013 Buxton Festival Fringe Awards [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foundrygroup.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}