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| Venue: |
Raffles Hotel, Singapore
(Jubilee Hall Theatre) |
| Dates: |
Wed 15th - Sun 19th November 2006 |
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| Date: |
Wed 15th November |
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6.30pm - Charity Gala Event |
Black tie dinner and performance in aid of KK Hospital Regional Outreach to Kids Fund.
Contact Liana Santoso
(Fundraising Committee Chair)
at Email:
admin@aasingapore.com or Tel: 6738 0371 |
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| Date: |
Thu 16th November |
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7.00pm cocktails with canapés, 7.45pm
curtain-up, 9.45pm dinner with wine
> View Dinner Menu with Wine
> View Vegetarian Dinner Menu with Wine |
| Tickets: |
$250 each or $2,500 per table of 10 |
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| Date: |
Fri 17th
November |
| Time: |
7.00pm cocktails with canapés, 7.45pm
curtain-up, 9.45pm dinner with wine
> View Dinner Menu with Wine
> View Vegetarian Dinner Menu with Wine |
| Tickets: |
$250 each or $2,500 per table of 10 |
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Sat 18th November |
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8.00pm curtain up - Show and free
souvenir programme |
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$120, $100 each |
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Sun 19th November
(matinee)
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| Time: |
3.00pm curtain up - Show with free
souvenir programme |
| Tickets: |
$120, $100 each |
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| Date: |
Sun 19th November (evening) |
| Time: |
7.30pm curtain up - Show with free
souvenir programme |
| Tickets: |
$120, $100 each |
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British Theatre Playhouse will return to Kuala Lumpur and present "A Bedfull of Foreigners" at the Hilton Kuala Lumpur on Wed 22nd November right through Fri 24th November 2006.
For further information, please contact:
BRITISH THEATRE PLAYHOUSE
Hp: (65) 9815 6230
Tel: (65) 6449 4855
Email: info@britishtheatreplayhouse.com
In November 2006, British Theatre Playhouse is returning to the great, British tradition of farce. “A Bedfull of Foreigners” ran for over 600 performances, almost 18 months uninterrupted, in the West End and its subsequent international success has equalled that, with productions worldwide in over a dozen languages. It was made into a movie in 1998.
The play is set in a French hotel in a small village near the German border, which could be described as a French version of ”Fawlty Towers”!
There are all the ingredients associated with the classic British farce: mistaken identities, a double-booked bedroom, inefficient staff and hasty cover-ups. Seductions and confrontations run rampant throughout this hilarious play and make for an excellent, relaxed evening's entertainment.
The Plot
With the intention of spending a quiet holiday in France, Stanley Parker and his wife Brenda find themselves sharing a hotel bedroom with a British businessman…his German wife…and his French mistress!
Adding to the confusion, are a hotel porter, who may or may not have been born in Lapland and subsequently joined the Foreign Legion and a lustful German hotel manager in Renaissance costume and a strangely high singing voice!
Beautiful girls undress on stage, middle aged women climb out of third floor windows, radiators fly to the ceiling and bicycle chains find new uses.
The list of famous, British actors and actresses who have lost their trousers and/or have been caught in their underwear is long and distinguished and “A Bedfull of Foreigners” offers ample opportunities for more!
Dave Freeman
The author, Dave Freeman was best known as the principal scriptwriter for the hugely popular Benny Hill TV Show from the 1950s to the mid-60s.
Freeman also wrote episodes of ”The Avengers”, “Hancock's Half Hour” and several episodes
of the “Carry On Laughing” TV series as well as the 1972 “Carry On Christmas Special”.
He wrote two Carry On film scripts - “Carry On Behind” and “Carry On Columbus”, he was
most proud, however, of his work for theatre. He wrote three plays, “Kindly Keep It Covered”,
“Key for Two” and the most popular, “A Bedfull of Foreigners”. |
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Jeremy Gittins ("Claude")
One of the UK's best known TV "faces", Jeremy has featured in some of the most popular series on British television: "Doctors", "Eastenders": "Dr Who", "Casualty", "A Touch of Frost", "Footballers Wives" and "Blackadder Goes Forth", to name but a few.
He is particularly familiar to fans - both in the UK and Asia - of the BBCTV sitcom series "Keeping up Appearances" where he played the long-suffering, young Vicar, opposite Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift in 5 series of the programme.
In London's West End he played Sir Edward Ramsay in "The King and I" at The Palladium directed by Christopher Renshaw.
At the Young Vic theatre he appeared in the role of "Phillip" in Christopher Master's production of "Not Later Than Six" and, at the famous Old Vic, in Toby Robertson's production of "King Lear". At the Arts Theatre he played Histrionex in "Asterix".
He has twice appeared in "The Rocky Horror Show" – as Frank N'Furter in the national tour and in the West End, at the Comedy Theatre, as "Rocky".
He has also appeared with leading UK theatre companies in productions of "How The Other Half Loves" (Bob Phillips) "Joking Apart" (Richard) "Bedroom Farce" (Nick) and "The Secret Diary of Samuel Pepys" (Sir William Penn).
Film work includes Stuart Cooper's "Anno Domini"; the role of Lt Kemp in "Blue Leader Missing" and Dominic in "Callan – the movie" and as the Scout Master in Gail Syke's "If You Go Down To The Woods".
A keen golfer, he has successfully hidden his handicap from the rest of the cast - so far!
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John Nolan - Director ("Karak")
After training at the Drama Centre, John spent two years with the Royal Shakespeare Company leaving to take the title role in the BBC's classic serialisation of the George Elliot novel Daniel Deronda. Thi acclaimed production led to many leading roles in series and serials most notably Geoff Hardcastle in "Doomwatch", Nick Faunt in "Shabby Tiger" and Apollo in "The Orestia".
Other television credits include the title roles in "Hamlet", "Richard II" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" (RTE) and over fifty further television roles including Ian Fleming in "The Real James Bond", "The Prisoner", "Enemy at the Door", "The Sweeney", "Dickens of London", "Return of the Saint", "Crown Court", "General Hospital", "Silent Witness" and Trevor Nunn's "Merchant of Venice". He is soon to be seen playing Archie in the TV cult hit, "Hustle".
From touring Ireland in the '60s (before Drama School) in one of the now long defunct but legendry “Fit up” companies to being a member of Trevor Nunn's innovative and highly acclaimed ensemble company at the National Theatre, John has worked extensively in the theatre throughout Great Britain and Ireland winning the best Actor award for his performance of Thoreau in the Dublin festival production of "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail". Most recent theatre work includes the Tom Stoppard trilogy "The Coast of Utopia" at the National Theatre and Brabantio and Lodovico in "Othello" at Northampton and Greenwich.
John's film work includes "Beguest to the Nation", "The World is Full of Married Men", "Thriller", "Following" and "Batman Begins" playing George Fredericks, the only honourable member of the Wayne Enterprises board.
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Kim Hartman ("Helga Philby")
Kim grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon. After a year as a student ASM at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, she trained at the Webber-Douglas Academy in London.
Her early work took her to the Chichester Festival Theatre, Harrogate, the Bristol Old Vic and the Redgrave Theatre, Farnham.
Kim played "Helga" in all 96 episodes of the BBC comedy series "‘Allo ‘Allo" and the "‘Allo ‘Allo" stage show which toured the UK, Australia and New Zealand as well as playing for two years in the West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre and the London Palladium.
She also spent a year in the West End playing Jacqueline in "Don't Dress for Dinner"
Recent theatre credits include Elsie in "Dirty Dusting"; Doris in "Dry Rot"; Vicky in "My Fat Friend"; Margaret in "My Mother Said I Never Should"; Vera in "Stepping Out"; Judith Bliss in "Hay Fever" and Sarah in "Table Manners".
She has toured the Middle East in "Move Over Mrs Markham" and spent four months in New Zealand playing Josie in "Steaming".
Last year Kim joined the cast of the long-running BBC TV series "Grange Hill" as the eccentric Science teacher, Mrs Rawlinson. She also visited Kuala Lumpur and Singapore, with the British Theatre Playhouse, to play Jean in "Funny Money".
Other TV credits include "Miss Jones and Son"; "The Kelly Montieth Show"; "The Peddler"; "Casualty"; "15 Storeys High" and "Comedy Playhouse".
Kim has appeared in numerous television talk and quiz shows and pantomimes playing everything from Principal Boy to the Evil Witch - her favourite!
Directing credits include "A Jovial Crew"; "Comedy of Errors"; "Henry V" and "The Cherry Orchard".
She is a co-founder and director of the production company "Quinton Arts".
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Nick Wilton ("Stanley")
Nick read Drama & English at Kent University.
He made his professional acting debut in the 1980 revival of the Whitehall farce Simple Spymen , directed by Brian Rix and later went on to play opposite Brian in the West End revival of Dry Rot. In 1982 he won the Perrier award at Edinburgh with his revue group, WRITERS INC.
Other stage appearances include: Cash on Delivery, The Sloane Ranger Revue and Newsrevue in the West End; national tours of Oklahoma!, Outside Edge, Run For Your Wife, Brief Encounter, The Railway Children, and as Samuel Pepys in The Secret Diaries; Habeas Corpus (Exeter), The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband (Hornchurch), Neville's Island (Watford), Rosencrantz in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Salibury), Maniac in Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Southampton), Calculus (New End, Hampstead), a Middle & Far East tour of Bedroom Farce; and pantomimes at Plymouth, Worthing, Salisbury, Edmonton Hornchurch, Ilford, the Shaw Theatre, London, and on Radio 4. This Christmas will be Nick's seventh year as Pantomime Dame, playing 'Sarah the Cook' in Dick Whittington at Rhyl.
Nick's television series (as peformer and writer) include "Carrott's Lib", "Hello Mum", "Fast Forward", "Playaway", "Number 73", and "WYSIWYG"; other writing credits include sketches for "Not The Nine O'clock News", "A Kick Up The 80's", "Three Of A Kind", "Spitting Image", "Smith & Jones", "Smack The Pony" and "Comic Relief".
Other TV appearances include 2 series of "Big Meg, Little Meg", "The Bill" (3 times), "Casualty", "Heartbeat", "Noah's Ark", "The 10%ers", "Colin's Sandwich", the BBC films "The Plant and Glamour Night", and in Paul Merton, Keith Allen, Jim Tavare and Jerry Sadowitz's television shows.
On Radio Nick was in three series of "Son of Cliché" and "In One Ear", which both won Sony awards for best comedy.
Nick is thrilled to be back with The British Theatre Playhouse, having thoroughly enjoyed playing in their highly successful production of "Funny Money" in Spring 2005.
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Corinna Powlesland ("Brenda Parker")
Corinna has just finished filming opposite Bob Hoskins in the new feature film "Ruby Blue" playing the part of Suzie and has recently performed in "Hanging By A Thread" at the Almeida Theatre.
Other Theatre productions include playing Dolly in the UK Tour of "Annie Get Your Gun"; "Lily in Alfie - The Musical" at Watford Palace Theatre; Judy in "Brighton Rock - The Musical" at the Almeida Theatre; Belinda in Season's Greetings, Elvira in "Blithe Spirit", Lady Annabella in "Tenant Of Wildfell Hall", Brooke Ashton in "Noises Off"; Freda Caplan in "Dangerous Corner" and Gertie Lawrence in "Noel and Gertie" (all at the Theatre by the Lake, Keswick); Ethel in "A Saint She Ain't" for Ned Sherrin (Apollo Theatre); June Wedding in "Slow Drag" (Whitehall Theatre); Mel in "Shakers" for John Godber (Hull Truck); Sarah in "Blood, Sweat and Tears" (Hull Truck & West Yorkshire Playhouse);Lucretia Otis in "The Canterville Ghost" (National Tour); Varya in "The Cherry Orchard" (Everyman Studio, Cheltenham); Magenta in "The Rocky Horror Show" (Duke of Yorks, WE); Audrey in "Little Shop Of Horrors" (Everyman Theatre); "Sweeney Todd"; "Uncle Vanya"; "Grease" (Derby Playhouse); "Stepping Out" (Brewhouse,Taunton); "My Mother Said I Never Should" (Everyman Studio) and the premiere of "Alfie - The Musical" where she created the role of Lily at the Oldham Coliseum.
Recent TV credits include: the Visitor in "Down To Earth" (BBC) Mrs Hollis in "Doctors" (BBC) the role of Jane in the series "The Legends of Treasure Island" (Central TV) and Amanda in "Western Approach" (BBC South West).
She has appeared in concert at Pizza on the Park and Ronnie Scott's and has sung as a soloist with the BBC Radio Orchestra in "Songs From The Shows".
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Emma Francis ("Simone")
Emma has just completed a UK Tour of Anything Goes playing Chastity as well as taking-over the role of Erma and directed by Ian Talbot.
Prior to that her theatre credits include a European Tour as one of the Barelli Sisters in "The Rat Pack", preceded by performing in the same production at the Strand Theatre, London, a European Tour of "Chicago" playing Annie and Mama Morton for Clear Channel, Cameron Mackintosh's "My Fair Lady" playing Mrs Higgins' Maid and ensemble, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Robert Stigwood's national tour of "Grease "playing Marty and Rizzo, the world premiere production of "Dr Doolittle" , directed by Stephen Pimlott (Labatt's Apollo, Hammersmith), Minister's Wife and Mrs Walker in Des MacAnuff's "Tommy" (national tour), Carmen and Charity in" Sweet Charity" (English Theatre, Frankfurt and Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch), Simeon's Wife in Stephen Pimlott's "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" (national tour).
Other credits include "The Russ Abbot Summer Spectacular" (BIC, Bournemouth), "Songs from the Shows" (Winter Gardens, Bournemouth), "The Freddie Starr Show" (Great Yarmouth).
Emma has also spent time in Australia where she has worked on various trade shows as an Assistant Choreographer.
Her television credits include "Rat Pack" (German Television), "Agony" (Live TV), "The Making of Dr Doolittle" (Carlton Television).
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Richard Denning ("Heinz")
Richard Denning is the British Actor's Equity name of British Theatre Playhouse Producer John Faulkner.
His career started in 1968 when he graduated from The Webber-Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.
In London's West End he appeared in "The Good Companions at Her Majesty's"; Dandy Dick with Alastair Sim at "The Garrick"; Oh Mr Porter! at "The Mermaid"; "The Mousetrap"; "The Seagull at the Duke of Yorks The Gay Lord Quex" directed by Sir John Gielgud; "Me and My Girl at The Adelphi" and "Stepping Out", also at "The Duke of Yorks".
He also appeared in the Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre production of John Lahr's revue based on the life of playwright Joe Orton "Diary of a Nobody"
He has worked extensively in UK regional theatre including Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Pitlochry Festival, the Leicester Haymarket, Leeds Playhouse and two seasons at the Chichester Festival Theatre.
He co-produced the West End version of Nancy Ford and Gretchen Cryer's New York hit "I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road" at The Adelphi theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue: a major national tour of the UK with Ken Ludwig's comedy "Lend Me A Tenor" and a national tour of Sweden of Noel Cowards' "Cowardy Custard", in collaboration with the Swedish National Theatre.
Recital work includes performances in London and the USA with the late Princes Grace of Monaco and Dame Judi Dench and he has performed his cabaret act at Claridges Hotel, The Ritz and The Dorchester.
In Singapore he co-founded, with Brother Joseph McNally, the LaSalle School of Drama, now known as SIA-LaSalle College of the Arts.
John is a well-known face to sports fans in Singapore having hosted sports shows for ESPN, Mediacorp and, currently, as co-host of AXN's Samsung Sports World. |
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