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Technical Requirements:

The show is primarily designed for easy touring into intimate, small to medium scale venues and therefore requires minimal technical effects.

Min. Performance Area – 4m wide by 3m deep.

Set -    Chair, Table and Hat-stand. (Provided by company). PLUS One Free-standing Flat, 8 foot square (approx.)

Lighting Requirements –  General wash throughout + one special.       (Minimal number of lighting cues).

Music/Sound –   Pre-show Music on CD, Provided by Company.  

Running time -  2 hour minutes approx. (Including one interval of 20 minutes).


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Truelove Tours presents… “Remembering Dame Hermione”

Part II of Manly Truelove’s “Theatrical Anecdotes Trilogy”:

Written and performed by Darren Gooding.

The irrevocably intoxicated old raconteur returns to unfold the unexpurgated and entirely libellous tale of his Mother, Dame Hermione Truelove. From The Old Vic, to the Cuban Jungle – witness with stunned incomprehension how Dame Hermione’s production of “Charley’s Aunt” became a template for communist insurgence throughout Latin America…

Technical Requirements:

The show is primarily designed for easy touring into intimate, small to medium scale venues and therefore requires minimal technical effects.

Min. Performance Area – 4m wide by 3m deep.

Set -    Chair, Table and Hat-stand. (Provided by company).

Lighting Requirements –  General wash throughout + one special.       (Minimal number of lighting cues).

Music/Sound –   Pre-show Music on CD, Provided by Company.

Running time -  Long Version - 1 hour, 30 minutes approx. (Including one interval of 15 minutes). OR

                        Short Version - 60 minutes approx. (No interval)

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Truelove Tours presents… “As I Remember Thrigby”

Part I of Manly Truelove’s “Theatrical Anecdotes Trilogy”:

Written and performed by Darren Gooding.

Actor, Critic and devious old booze-hound Mr. Manly S. Truelove cordially invites you to join him on a guided tour of his surreal and often utterly unbelievable theatrical world. Over a few tiny drinkies, (well, quite a few to be honest), Manly attempts to unravel many baffling theatrical tales, including the stratospheric rise and subsequent Icarus-like fall of the once great, now forgotten (and largely inebriated) 1960’s matinee idol, Sir Thrigby Tree-Frog.

Bookings

Technical Requirements

RUNNING TIME - 3 Hours including Interval - 20 minutes

STAGING – Standard Theatre set up - End on / Pros.

SET – PROVIDED BY T.T. - Table, Chair, Hatstand.

REQUESTED FROM VENUE (IF POSSIBLE). – One 3’ or 4’ square steel/aluminium deck rostra with 6” legs. Set up stage centre.

LIGHTING –GENERAL STAGE COVER – FRESNELS / PARS ETC.

Covering performance area, rigged to allow for 4 basic colour washes: Warm  / Bright (Straw), Amber, Limelight Green, Cold Blue (201 / 119)

SPECIALS –  PROFILES x6

x4 Profiles hung directly above central 3’ square rostra: shuttered and sharp focused to light only the square of the rostra from above – gelled with blue of (if possible) UV simulating colour (719?)

x1Profile hung upstage open white, shuttered to produced a shaft of light running downstage centre towards the audience.

x1 Profile  hung from grid over audience pointing to centre stage rostra - gelled light green to produce “Limelight” spot effect.

PROJECTION – NONE

SOUND –

Preshow, interval and incidental music/SFX will all be provided on CD to play over house speakers.

No stage micing is required.

NOTES –

Preshow and interval entertainments can run in the form of close up magic work which will interact directly with audience members in the “auditorium” and bar areas.

A complete script with LX and Sound cues will be provided by T.T. along with a company member to run lights and another to run sound. It is useful, but not necessarily essential, to have one venue technician available for the performance, and one is required during the day for the rig and focus.


Not currently on tour for general theatre booking,but is available under special circumstances available in a  “Cabaret” form. Please contact us for further details.

Technical Requirements

RUNNING TIME - 60 minutes - straight through.

STAGING – Standard Theatre set up - End on / Pros.

SET – PROVIDED BY T.T. - Table, Chair, Hatstand. Pair of Candle Sticks.

LIGHTING –GENERAL STAGE COVER – FRESNELS / PARS ETC.

Covering performance area, rigged to allow for 4 basic colour washes: Warm  / Bright (Straw), Amber, Limelight Green, Cold Blue (201 / 119)

SPECIALS –  PROFILES x6

x4 Profiles - x2 Profiles hung front open white.

x2Profile  hung stage left shuttered or Goboed to simulate windows.

PROJECTION – NONE

SOUND –

Preshow, interval and incidental music/SFX will all be provided on CD to play over house speakers.

No stage micing is required.

NOTES –

Preshow and interval entertainments can run in the form of close up magic work which will interact directly with audience members in the “auditorium” and bar areas.

A complete script with LX and Sound cues will be provided by T.T. along with a company member to run lights and another to run sound. It is useful, but not necessarily essential, to have one venue technician available for the performance, and one is required during the day for the rig and focus.


Truelove Tours’ latest full-length stage productions “The Terror Beneath the Boards”, “The Illusionist, The Princess and The Candlesticks” and the previous production “The Cabinet of Leopold Thorn”  will remain available for general booking throughout 2015. DVDs of the Preview Performance at Colchester Arts Centre are available upon request to venue managers and other interested arts professionals. Full booking  and technical details will follow shortly...

In the meantime parts One and Two of Manly Truelove’s Theatrical Anecdotes Stage Show Trilogy are currently unavailable for general theatre booking.

Film Screenings of “As I Remember Thrigby” are still available for booking, as are cabaret and compere turns.

For full details, price and availability please contact us.