2010 Quentin Follies Performers
The following acts will be performing at the 2010 Quentin Follies.
MISS VELVETY CHEEKS ( Anna Moses )
Burlesque artiste who also indulges in costume making, corsetry, millinery, cake-making and singing.
MISS HIGH LEG KICK ( Francesca Baglione)
Leggy & lovely multi talented comic visionary superstar subverts burlesque style glamour with her eponymous move, reinvented in spectacular celebrations of dance, costume, extreme physical risk & messy foodstuffs !
Miss High Leg Kick's Website
BOOGALOO STU
A showbiz multi-tasker! Nightclub disc-jockey, bawdy gameshow host, multi dimensional comic visionary, apparel designer, raconteur and radio presenter, cartoonist, illustrator and ballroom dancing-singer-songwriter-musicmaker! Boogaloo Stu exists to turn the humdrum into a fantasia of flashy frivolity, a symphony of glittering gaiety, a divine display of dreamy decadence.
Boogaloo Stu's website
SUSANNAH WALTERS
During a ten year career as a singer, Susannah sang principal roles with many of the world's leading opera companies, including Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Welsh National Opera, Scottish Opera, the Royal Opera, Santa Fe Opera, and L.A. Opera. In 2001, Susannah gave up singing to pursue her ambitions as a writer and director. The same year she was commissioned by the Covent Garden Festival to write and direct a series of monologues concerning the life of Elizabeth I. The resulting work, titled the regina monologues premiered in May 2001 with Penelope Keith playing Elizabeth I, was immediately invited fur further performances in 2002 by festivals both in the UK and abroad. Riding on the back of this success, Susannah has launched her own company The Paddock in Lewes, Sussexto produce and tour collaborative new work between established artists and ensembles from the fields of classical music, dance, theatre and literature. Ongoing projects include a staging of two solo Handel cantatas in collaboration with the choreographer Yolande Snaith and an adaptation for two actors and Victorian parlour piano of nine-year old Daisy Ashford's novella The Young Visitors from which she will be performing an extract at The Quentin Follies.
RICHARD HAHLO
Richard works as an actor, director and teacher in the UK and internationally. As an actor for the National Theatre, he has appeared in The Wandering Jew, Countrymania (both directed by Mike Alfreds) and Education tours of Henry V and The Tempest (both directed by Brigid Larmour). For the RSC Hamlet. He played Puck in an international co-production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Carrousel State Theater in Berlin. He has also appeared in The Paddock‘s The Young Visiters, and for A27 in Dinner at Mirandolinas. He has also played all over Britain touring schools, community centres, and regional theatres; including Red Shift Theatre Frida & Diego (Edinburgh Fringe First winner), West Yorkshire Playhouse Kvetch, Contact Manchester Metamorphosis. In London’s West End The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. TV includes 99-1, Stolen and The Bill. He trained in theatre at Exeter University and on a scholarship at the University of California, San Diego. He is an Education and Training Associate at the National Theatre and has run many workshop programmes all over Europe, as well as in South Africa (at The Market Theatre), the USA and Japan. He is also Programme Director of the National Theatre's Theatreworks programme. As well as a company director of corporate theatre training experts Dramatic Resources. His book (with Peter Reynolds) DRAMATIC EVENTS: How To Run a Successful Workshop is published by Faber & Faber.
ANDREW O’HAGAN
Andrew O’Hagan was born in Glasgow in 1968. His first book, The Missing, was published in 1995 and shortlisted for the Esquire/Waterstone’s/Apple Non-Fiction Award. Our Fathers, his debut novel, was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His second novel, Personality, was published in 2003 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. In January of that year Granta named him one of the 'Best of Young British Novelists' and in April he received the E. M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He lives in London.
HAYDN COTTAM
Haydn Cottam was raised in Merseyside and studied painting at St Martins. His work is based on close observation of life and nature. He has won major awards for portrait painting.
Influences include Courbet, John Singer Sargent, Whistler, Stanley Spencer, Lucien Freud and the British ‘Kitchen Sink Painters of the late 1940’s and early 1950’s
Haydn Cottam first came to the Lewes area when he was a student in the early Eighties. He went to a party at Charleston Farm House and was struck by the beauty of the Sussex countryside. The memory of this experience stayed with him and after this, and trips to Dorset, Wales and the Scottish Highlands, landscapes began to appear within the urban interiors in his portrait and narrative figure paintings.
www.haydncottam.com
JEREMY O‘SULLIVAN
A trained singer, Jeremy is also Cultural Diplomacy Officer at the European Commission. He is responsible for liaising with EU member states' embassies, institutes of culture, and arts organisations, and in developing joint cultural projects. He also manages the Representation's cultural events; runs its gallery, and edits its culture newsletter.
BRECHT WEIL (Adrienne Thomas & Hayward Slater)
ADRIENNE THOMAS
Adrienne has been singing, writing material acting and performing for over 20 years. Well known for her powerful voice and dramatic delivery, she brings a sense of total energy and committment to these powerful and evocative songs
HAYWARD SLATER
Hayward has been playing guitar for over 30 years and brings his own unique interpretation to this work; originally scored for a small orchestra. Weill's unique rythms come to life in this pared back to the bones presentation, echoing Brecht's own beginnings.
The amazingly full sound which Hayward produces still leaves plenty of space for each character's story to be heard; the words bringing a provocative truth about life's injustices to the fore.
CLAUDIA CHAPMAN
Still at school, 17 year old Claudia Chapman is also studying cello and singing at the Royal College of Music.
PHILIP POPE
Philip Pope co-wrote with Richard Curtis the Hee Bee Gee Bees' single "Meaningless Songs" (B-side "Posing in the Moonlight") released in 1980 to parody the style of a series of Bee Gees disco hits. The Hee Bee Gee Bees went on to record two albums spoofing numerous acts including Eagles, Michael Jackson, The Police, Status Quo and Supertramp. Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O'Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single " The Chicken Song" with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor.
He appeared in the Oxford Revue in Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1978 and 1979, both with Angus Deayton. He performed in the BBC radio comedy series Radio Active (1980–87) and has also starred in a number of TV comedy shows, including Who Dares Wins (1983–88), Chelmsford 123 (1988–90) and KYTV (1989–93). He made guest appearances on Blackadder as the painter Leonardo Acropolis and Shelley as pop star Hobo with Hywel Bennett as James Shelley.
RICHARD DYBALL
Richard’s first show as a writer-performer, Minty Fresh , was directed by Neil Mullarkey and had a ‘ Time Out Critic’s Choice’ run at BAC, London. Since then he has co-written and performed Men’s Style and Fitness with Dominic Maxwell, six character comedy shows with Alastair Kerr and toured their Crouching Ferret, Hidden Beaver nationally. He has also written and performed with Joanna Neary.
As well as odds and sods on TV, he’s done one panto, Greek tragedy on a ship and been a spear carrier for Glyndebourne Opera which he wrote about in The Times. He’s written six further theatre features for The Times and interviewed The Tweenies. Future plans include a new character comedy show called The Straight White Male, a new play written with David Stuttard and a book on English gardening.
DER WUNDERLICH REVUE ( Mick Duncan & Dan England )
Der Wunderlich Revue is a brand new, old-fashioned cabaret troupe in the finest tradition. We do sleazy, classy, brassy, mainly-male burlesque / cabaret routines and a little bit of this and that on a tangent therefrom.
BRADLEY & BINGFORD is a two fella tease, featuring two bankers who have lost their profit share and their wardrobes in the credit crunch. Featuring a thunderous twirl of an ending - anything the dames can do with two tassels, we can do it with one!
JAMES THONG is a hilarious strip caper. The unfortunate James Thong's sexy strip is disrupted by accidental narcotics consumption, with unpredictable results.
BEN-E-DICK & THE RAT SINGERS performing a Holy See dis-approved version of Thank Heaven for Little Boys (girls)
Good for cabaret and great for between bands, not so good for posh weddings or children's birthdays. Some acts need to be on the stage and some are more mobile. The cheerleaders are good for walkabout. Bradley and Bingford take some persuading to do walkabout in their little outfits but as long as the weather is nice… We can cut our sequined cloth to fit your needs really.
ELLA PARTINGTON
Diminutive local 12 year old Ella is a whizz on the fiddle. She will be entertaining the crowds during dinner, accompanied by her guitar player ( to be confirmed ).
All proceeds raised by the above fundraising event are in aid of The Charleston Trust. The Charleston Trust (Bloomsbury in Sussex), Registered Charity No. 1107313, is a non profit making company limited by guarantee.
Registered in England and Wales Company Number 5212725. Registered office: Charleston, Firle, Lewes, BN8 6LL.
