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| Click here to e-mail Tim Rejects Revenge Theatre Company 15 Hope Street Newsletter No. 10EditorialDear All,If this is your first Newsletter after signing up for the Mailing List after seeing us on tour with Dusty Fruit between February and April, you're probably very impressed with the speed and efficiency with which this has landed on your mat. Inside this thin first folio you will find all the details of what we've been up to, who we've met and why we suddenly think the National Lottery is a Great British Institution, the Directors of which deserve to skin as many fat cats as they can lay their hands on. If this is not your first Newsletter, just skip to the bit where we try to sell you stuff. Dusty Fruit TourBlackpool to Bridgewater... Following on from the Autumn '97 tour, we bombarded further parts North, East, South and West with the moving and tragic tale of the man who could only play the triangle. Many good nights ensued before, after and occasionally during the performances, but it would be churlish not to pick out the two excellent nights at the Liverpool Everyman (our special thanks to The Echo who thought, that at 1 hour 10 minutes, the show was "a little long"), two sell-out nights at the Cambridge Drama Centre and a week long sojourn in the villages of Cheshire. Our apologies to the Colchester twenty-three, a number of whom we seemed to keep up well past their bedtimes.... Ballachulish to John O'Groats... We shall be "flinging our sporrans" and running over wee timorous beasties on our fourth Scottish Tour of the Highlands and Islands (and suburbs of Glasgow). If you're around on the dates and in the places mentioned, then come and swat midges with us. Mine'sh a Shingapore Schling... Did we mention in the last missive that we were off to Singapore in April? I suspect we did. We may, however, have failed to add that we were performing in the 400 seat theatre of the most famous hotel in the world, The Raffles, and that we sold out for the week's run, and, since you asked, had to add an extra date. On the down side, Borneo was still on fire so we spent no little time trying to find the hotel through the smog, and at 37 degrees centigrade walking and/or breathing was inadvisable out of the shade... Peasouper TourOnce more the story of one man's inhumanity to camels hits the road to a vast auditorium near you, as long as your local vast auditorium is;(a) in Thessaloniki, Greece, and you're around town on the 4th or 5th of May for our third visit to the Annual Spring Festival, or; (b) in a number of towns around the world whose identity we as yet know not Suffice to say we shall be touring the Award-Winning Peasouper, and, since you asked, the Award-Winning Dusty Fruit as well, one last time in February and March 1999. Catch them while the sets are still standing... Did we mention we'd been to Singapore? WorkshopsOur thanks for the hard work of all those who attended our "Setting Up a Small-Scale Theatre Company" week at Oxford Pegasus, and a hello to all those on the Physical Theatre Course at The Hope Street Project in Liverpool who are about to undergo a similar experience. Remember: it's a safe space for play and improvisation as long as you do exactly what we tell you...Big VanAnd yet more thanks to the National Lottery which has seen fit to grant us over £42,000 towards a big van, office equipment and lighting and sound equipment to enable us to tour for ever and ever and ever. (It is pure coincidence that we happened to jet off to Singapore last week and Greece two weeks later just as the cheque has cleared at the bank). By the way, if you see us on the road anywhere in the country, give us a wave and we'll feel loved. P.S. There is no name on the van at the moment, so only wave at big Mercedes vans driven by a young Paul McCartney look-alike, a balding man with big ears, or someone who looks like her dad's just let her drive for the first time and has forgotten to bring any cushions for her to sit on...Final Fling with PhilUnder the eagle eye of Heather Robson, we spent all of January devising the last of our Sounds Alive concerts with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the last of which, featuring British Music and Tim playing Smoke on the Water is scheduled for Saturday, 16 May, at 11.30am. Much respect goes out to all the people we've worked with over the last two years of the project, especially the orchestra themselves for their ability to put up with three idiots mucking about in front of them while they're playing serious music, and our two conductors, Paul McGrath and Tim Redmond. Look out for an exciting new music project next year...MerchandisingHa ha ha! Too late!!! We've sold out! No more "Man with Fish" T-shirts, mugs, badges or frisbees, except if you're really nice to us in a venue and bribe us with cash. Even then we've still sold out, but you'll make touring just that little bit easier (not a word to Company Manager, Angela...)And Next?From June to December the co-artistic Directors (the idiots on stage to you) will be seeking individual personal artistic development in as many hot countries as we can afford. Between us we're working with an improv company in New York, taking a show to Edinburgh, assistant directing a student production, writing a new show for the Unity Theatre, etc, etc., and will constantly be on the lookout to improve our theatrical know-how and artistic what-nots. If you see us, say hello, and we shall see you on the road again some time from February to April 1999....THE REJECTS PS Rejects Revenge Theatre Company Limited is a company limited by guarantee (3044531) and a registered charity (1047221) |
