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Live Arts At The Heart Of Your Community
Spring 2020 Season
Live Arts At The Heart Of Your Community
Spring 2020 Season
We are delighted to present our selection of shows and performances available for booking for Spring 2020,
featuring the very best of touring theatre, music, storytelling, puppetry and children’s shows.
This season we have five delightful theatre productions on offer. Those of you who enjoyed last year’s show
by Time and Again Theatre (Greyhounds) will be pleased to see they are back with their new show, Clouds.
Owdyado Theatre bring their hilariously dark Twisted Tales of the very unexpected to your door and Notnow
Collective invite you to an evening of family and cultural traditions, whilst baking Croatian biscuits on stage, in
their new play Pepper and Honey. We also have two productions suitable for families, with children 6/7years
plus. Created by Robert and David Goodale and a smash hit in the West End in 2014, Jeeves and Wooster
in Perfect Nonsense is presented by Chipping Norton and Barn Theatre. And Bright Buoy Productions
present their sell-out Brighton Fringe show Blue Planet III, addressing ecological issues in their hilarious
comic style.
For younger children we have two shows on the Menu. Long Nose Puppets (Penguin and Out Of The Hat)
are back – this time with their ever popular show Arthur’s Dream Boat. And What’s Coming Out Of The Box
present their brand new show Bonhomme, with lots of lovely ways to encourage goodness, kindness and a
sense of community in young children.
Music acts in this spring Menu include The People’s String Foundation, who will bring a ‘virtual 32-piece
orchestra’ to your venue and present their multimedia show Res Publica, using music, puppetry,
cinematography and animation. We also have rising UK star Sunjay, a guitarist and vocalist whose style
sits naturally between folk and blues. And The Carrivick Sisters, twins from South Devon, who perform
bluegrass and folk, with stunning harmonies and multi-instrumental virtuosity.
Some of the productions and artists featured in this Menu are touring the country for a limited period during
2020 and the dates you see in this Menu are only on reserve for Applause promoters for a few weeks. In
these cases we need to secure a run of dates in the Kent and Sussex region to make it financially viable for
the companies to travel and stay in the south east region for a few nights. Therefore, please send us your
booking requests as soon as possible so that we can secure dates with the companies.
The booking period for Spring shows runs from October to March and through the season itself, if we still
have enough funds to subsidise more shows. We will begin to schedule bookings sometime in the middle of
the booking period once we have a collection of requests to work with. If we have received your preferences
by that time it is more likely we will be able to offer you your preferred show and date. If you are new to rural
touring and would like to receive additional information and guidelines please email, telephone or write to us
using the details below.
A quick reminder that the full price for each show is paid by Applause to the performing Company. Promoters
pay Applause the Minimum Fee, plus 40% of ticket sales in excess of the Minimum Fee. Recommended
ticket prices are given on each Menu sheet as a guideline.
Booking is easy - when you have made your choices please send us an email or telephone the office to
express your interest in a performance. We hope you enjoy browsing the wide variety of performances on
offer within this Menu and we look forward to receiving your requests!
Kind Regards, Dawn, Ann and Louise
Applause Rural Touring,
The Yard, 2a Speldhurst Road, Southborough,
Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 0DP
01892 457635 www.applause.org.uk office@applause.org.uk
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Spring 2020 Season
Availability At A Glance
The following dates are reserved for Applause with the performing companies
February
29 Owdyado Theatre: Twisted Tales II
March
1 Owdyado Theatre: Twisted Tales II
5 & 12 Chipping Norton and Barn Theatre: Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect
Nonsense
26, 27, 28 & 29 Time and Again Theatre: Clouds
April
30 Notnow Collective: Pepper and Honey
May
1, 2 & 3 Notnow Collective: Pepper and Honey
15, 16 & 17 The People’s String Foundation: Res Publica
General availability during much of the spring and early summer. Please enquire for
specific dates.
Jan – May The Carrivick Sisters
Jan - Jun Long Nose Puppets: Arthur’s Dream Boat
Jan – Jun Sunjay in Concert
Feb – April Bright Buoy Productions: Blue Planet
March – April What’s Coming Out Of The Box: Bonhomme
The Orange Circus Band
All the companies and artists featured in this Menu have websites you can visit for further
descriptions, reviews and background information. For website addresses please see the foot
of the artist’s page in the Menu. Some of the websites feature short show reels, and all of the
music acts provide tracks for you to listen to. Please do visit these sites to get a flavour of the
type of company and performance you could book for your event.
Applause Rural Touring,
The Yard, 2a Speldhurst Road, Southborough,
Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN4 0DP
01892 457635 www.applause.org.uk office@applause.org.uk
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Owdyado Theatre Company: Twisted Tales II
Back by popular demand Twisted Tales II is a brand new show by ‘Owdyado Theatre Company
touring in 2020. Following on from the huge success of Twisted Tales, which toured across the
country in 2018 and 2019, this show is a new trilogy of darkly comic ‘tales of the unexpected.’
Twisted Tales II brings you three more surprising stories of the macabre and mysterious: get
ready for an anarchic night of hilariously dark theatre!
REALLY pleased ... The tales really WERE ‘Twisted’, and the laughs kept on coming. Thank you for a
MOST enjoyable evening of ‘proper’ entertainment Audience member from The Broadbent Theatre
Loved it! A hint of League of Gentlemen and a touch of Killing Eve. Gripping plots, fantastic performers
and great writing Audience member The Tolmen Centre
The show was tremendous. Theatre full – 80 seats! Audience member from the Foxlowe Arts Centre
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
Age Suitability: 3 x 30 mins, Adults £10
29 Feb & 1 Mar Adults and inc 2 x 15 min Child/Concs
young people
intervals £6.50
14+
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
Stage not
w 5m x d 5m IN: 4 hours
3 actors required but
OUT: 1 – 1.5
preferred for h 2.5m hours
good sightlines
SOUND REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING NEEDS PROMOTER MIN. FEE WORKSHOPS
Self sufficient Self sufficient £400 Please enquire
Blackout Full Price: for details
required £800
For more information visit: owdyado.co.uk
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The Theatre Chipping Norton and Barn Theatre present:
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
Take your seats with caution! Man-about-town Bertie Wooster
has hired the theatre for the night to present his one-man
show detailing a recent and rather spectacular series of
misadventures. The show will climax in his miraculous escape
from unwanted matrimony (in no small part thanks to his trusty
butler Jeeves). The only trouble is Bertie hasn’t worked out
who is going to play all the characters. Will it be a famous
disaster? Will the scenery stay upright? Or will Jeeves step in
and save the show?
In this joyous and anarchic reimagining of the classic P.G.
Wodehouse characters, three actors hurl themselves from
character to character as they race to tell the story of Bertie’s
own farcical adventures.
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense was created by
Robert and David Goodale, adapted primarily from P.G.
Woodhouse’ The Code ot the Woosters. After hugely
successful runs in the West End, it won the Olivier Award for
Best New Comedy.
Praise for other touring work produced by The Theatre Chipping Norton:-
Puts larger, more important producers to shame with this demonstration of what can be achieved with
what I imagine to be limited funds and resources. It is a pity more better placed regional theatres are not
producing work of this quality. **** Stage Talk Magazine, Stones In His Pockets Tour 2016
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
Age Suitability: 2 hours (approx) Adults £10
5 & 12 Mar including Child/Concs
Families with
children 7+ interval £6.50
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
Stage required - IN: 6 hours
5 (3 actors company can w 5m x d 5m
OUT: 1.5 hours
& 2 SM’s) provide some
raised staging
SOUND REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING NEEDS PROMOTER MIN. FEE OTHER INFO
Require one private dressing
Company will Company will £475 room, three large tables,
provide sound provide Full Price: parking for two vehicles &
system lighting rig. £870 access via double doors
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Time and Again Theatre Company: Clouds
The year is 1913 and women are rising up...
‘They just see me as a ready-made poster girl. If
woman can fly a machine, she can cast a vote!’
Amidst the flock of pioneers fighting to rule the
skies, Winifred (Freddie) Baxter is determined to
become the first Englishwoman to enter an air
race and fly right around the country!
In the open fields of Moorhanger Grange, Freddie
learns to take to the skies during Britain’s last
glorious summer, weathering the chaos of friends
and family, the suffragette movement, a glorious
garden party and far too much nephology – the
study of clouds.
Winner of the Oldham Coliseum Pick of the
Fringe award, Clouds is the second play by new,
young writer, Laura Crow, combining the
suffocating society of pre-war Britain with a touch
of comedy, early feminism and pure vintage flair!
Clouds will truly keep you coming back time and again ★★★★ Theatre Weekly
A wonderfully atmospheric play, Clouds is an interesting snapshot – and reminder – of the battles that
women fought, indeed are still fighting, in having a fair and equal world ★★★★ Edinburgh Guide
Clouds is a charming, important and engaging play [...] an immersive, delightful experience, with clever
writing and fine acting, creating a powerful piece of theatre ★★★★ Ed Fringe Review
Roaringly successful ★★★★ North West End
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
Age Suitability: 90 mins, plus Adults £10
26, 27, 28 & 29 Adults and 20 mins Child/Concs
Mar young people
interval £6.50
13+
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
Stage not
w 4m x d 3m IN: 2 hours
5 actors, required but
OUT: 30 mins
1 technician preferred for
good sightlines
SOUND REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING NEEDS PROMOTER MIN. FEE WORKSHOPS
Self sufficient Self sufficient £400 Please enquire
Full Price: for details
£750
For more information visit: timeandagaintheatrecompany.com
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Notnow Collective: Pepper and Honey
There are two types of people. The ones who move
away. And the ones who stay and wait...
Pepper and Honey is a new play about two women
questioning the meaning of home. The play is timed to
perfection in order to deliver a perfect Croatian pepper
biscuit, baked live in front of, and with the help of, the
audience.
The live baking process is intertwined with a story of
what it is like to settle in a different country, leaving
and returning and making and breaking family
traditions.
Pepper and Honey will appeal to audiences’ senses as
well as treating them to a moving and thought-
provoking story, with a warm, fun and inclusive
atmosphere.
‘Home is where it smells of pepper and honey’
Exquisitely acted and faultless production. Perfect for rural touring - David Lane, Rural touring promoter
We as an audience are not simply watching a play, we are being invited into someone’s home and life. A
beautifully written story full of love, loss, an exploration of cultures and, most importantly, new
beginnings. There was not a dry eye in the house by the end - Reviews Hub, Derby Theatre
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
Age Suitability: 1 hour 40 mins, Adults £10
30 Apr & Aimed at adults including 20 Child/Concs
1, 2 & 3 May but not unsuitable
mins interval £6.50
for children
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
3 (1 actor, Company IN: 4 hours
provides raised w 5m x d 5m
2 technical OUT: 1.5 hours
stage h 3m
staff)
SOUND REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING NEEDS PROMOTER MIN. FEE WORKSHOPS
Company will Additional
Company will £375
provide their activities
provide their Full Price:
own sound available on
own lighting £800 request
equipment
For more information visit: https://notnowcollective.com/pepper-and-honey/
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Spring 2020 Season
The People’s String Foundation: Res Publica
Res Publica is a brand new musical touring piece,
from The People’s String Foundation, featuring
virtuoso violinist Ben Sutcliffe and co- founder and
composer Zaid Al-Rikabi. The duo will pack a 32
piece Gypsy Orchestra into a suitcase and take
their ‘virtual orchestra’ on tour with them, to
perform their newest album release Res Publica.
Using music, puppetry, art, cinematography and
animation, the key musical parts are performed
live, backed by recorded footage of the People’s
String Foundation Orchestra. This show is a multi-
media theatrical concert sure to set your heart
racing, get your toes tapping, and warm your soul
with the people’s spirit and grafter’s hearts. The
second half of the show offers the chance to hear
the PSF’s most popular songs and compositions
working as they do as musical directors for Knee
High and Rogue Theatre and The Minack.
The People’s String Foundation takes you by surprise - you think…fun loving guys filled with a sense of
joie de vie! But very quickly you realise they’re much more than that - they are highly skilled musicians
who combine virtuosity with a passion for genuine shared event…rare
Mike Shepherd Artistic Director Kneehigh Theatre Company
One of the great wonders of the West. Stonking, earthy, organic, delicate & barn-storming
Charles Hazlewood, Conducter & Composer
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
Age Suitability: Adults £10
15, 16 & 17 May 90 mins plus
Adults and Child/Concs
children 8+
interval
£6.50
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
Stage not
w 3m x d 3m IN: 4.5 hours
2 musicians required but
OUT: 1 – 1.5
preferred for h 2m hours
good sightlines
SOUND REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING NEEDS PROMOTER MIN. FEE WORKSHOPS
Self sufficient Self sufficient £375 None available
Full Price:
£650
For more information visit: thepeoplesstringfoundation
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Spring 2020 Season
The Carrivick Sisters
The Carrivick Sisters are one of the UK's top
young bluegrass and folk acts. Twins Laura and
Charlotte perform their original songs and
instrumentals along with a few carefully chosen
covers on guitar, mandolin, fiddle, dobro, and
clawhammer banjo. Their busy touring schedule
is rapidly building them a reputation for engaging
and entertaining live performances with tight
sibling vocal harmonies and multi-instrumental
virtuosity. Having grown up in South Devon, an
area rich in folk lore and legends, much of their
original material is inspired by their local
surroundings and history.
As well as touring all over the UK, the Carrivick
Sisters have performed at major festivals in
Canada and mainland Europe. They have
released five studio albums to much critical
acclaim and airplay worldwide.
Demonstrating rare instrumental and vocal superiority that puts their colleagues to shame… this is one
duo which is going places Maverick Magazine *****
The Carrivick Sisters are pick of the crop The Telegraph
Their already formidable multi-instrumental skills and songwriting maturing at such a steep curve they’ll
soon be orbiting far beyond anyone else Q Magazine ****
A superbly talented pair o’ lasses Mike Harding, BBC Radio 2
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
Jan – May 2 x 45 plus Adults £10
Age Suitability:
Please enquire for 20 mins Child/Concs
All ages
specific dates interval £6.50
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
2 musicians Stage not
w 3m x d 2m IN: 1 hour
(possibly also required but
OUT: 30 mins
husband and preferred for
young baby) good sightlines
SOUND REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING NEEDS PROMOTER MIN. FEE WORKSHOPS
Self sufficient £300 None available
Will work with (plus accomd. if poss)
venues lighting Full Price:
£550
For more information visit: thecarrivicksisters.co.uk
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Spring 2020 Season
Long Nose Puppets: Arthur’s Dream Boat
Based on the book by Polly Dunbar, with
original music by Tom Gray, Arthur’s Dream
Boat is a story about a little boy who has a
dream.
One night, Arthur has an amazing dream about
a beautiful pink and green boat with a stripy
mast. He can't wait to tell everyone about it but
no one (not even his dog!) is interested. In fact,
they don't even notice that this very same boat
is growing on his head, getting larger and larger
by the minute! Soon, Arthur is bouncing along
the waves in his very own dream boat. Maybe
now his family will listen to him!
A magical playful children's show with
breathtaking puppets, so enchanting that
everyone will want to sail away with Arthur in his
dream boat!
Clever, witty, enchanting, fun and beautifully, impeccably performed, it turned out to be a surprisingly,
refreshingly regressive 45 minutes that genuinely rekindled the vibrant, youthful spirit of my inner child.
365Bristol.com – the leading entertainment site for Bristol
The show takes the time to remind us to reconsider the richness of our own imaginations and the joy of
immersing ourselves in innocent fantasy.
The Argus, Brighton
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
General Age Suitability: 45 minutes, plus Adults
availability. Children 2 - 8, and post show meet Child/Concs
Please enquire for their families
the puppets £6.50
dates
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
w 5m x d 5m IN: 2 hours
3 Stage not OUT: 1 hour
required h 3m
SOUND REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING NEEDS PROMOTER MIN. FEE WORKSHOPS
Company are £300 For an additional fee
Company are
Dreamboat Hat
self sufficient self sufficient Full Price:
Making
£600 workshop available
For more information visit: www.longnosepuppets.comLive Arts At The Heart Of Your Community
Spring 2020 Season
Sunjay In Concert
Sunjay is pretty much the antithesis of your typical
denim clad dishevelled folk and blues musician.
From his perfectly groomed hair to his spotlessly
shining boots he walks onto the stage every inch
the "city slicker". When Sunjay starts to play the
guitar and sing, you are transported to a world
where blues and country music meld seamlessly
amidst humid mangrove swamps and red neck
barbecues. With talents way beyond his years,
Derby-born blues-folk troubadour Sunjay has been
hailed for his exquisite and seemingly effortless
guitar mastery and graceful bass voice, with a
mature stage presence and captivating stories to
tell. A superb twenty-first century 'new generation'
blues musician. An evening with Sunjay is an
evening of exquisite blues, country and folk music
combined with a master class in guitar playing
interspersed with hilarious anecdotes.
A really soothing, natural sound and most definitely destined for bigger things Maverick Magazine
Sunjay shows real confidence, maturity and ease on stage that it seems like he has been doing nothing
else all of his life Folk All Magazine
A great voice Blues Matters Magazine
He's a wizard on the guitar; I think I'd call it jazz-folk! Vin Garbutt
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
Jan – Jun 2 x 50 mins Adults £10
Please enquire for Age Suitability:
All ages approx. plus 20 Child/Concs
specific dates mins interval £6.50
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
2 Preferred for good IN: 2 hours
sightlines but can w 3m x d 2m
(1 musician, OUT: 1 hour
perform on the h 2m
1 technician)
floor
SOUND REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING NEEDS PROMOTER MIN. FEE WORKSHOPS
Will work £375
Self sufficient None
with venues Full Price: available
lighting £700
For more information visit: sunjay.tvLive Arts At The Heart Of Your Community
Spring 2020 Season
Bright Buoy Productions: Blue Planet III
Two idiots at the BBC are making another
Blue Planet, but how do you know what a fish
is if you've never left your office? Put on your
polar ice caps and climb aboard an adventure
to save the oceans! Featuring swashbuckling
swordfish, hammerhead and spannerhead
sharks, wailing whales and nasty things that
lurk at the bottom of the sea, in this family
comedy nature documentary by the “hugely
talented” (Chortle) Luke Rollason and the
“hilarious” (The List) Christian Brighty.
Like a Pixar movie, this show is great for the
whole family!
David Attenborough meets clowning Broadway
Baby
Take the kids, take the parents, you will all have a
laugh The Scotsman
Perfect for keeping kids both big and small
engaged… utterly brilliant BN1 Magazine
Winners 2019 Balkan Otherplace Award, Brighton
Fringe
Sell Out Show Brighton Fringe 2019
Nominated ONCA Green Curtain Sustainability
Award 2019
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
Generally available Adults
Age Suitability: 60 minutes,
Feb – April. Please Children 6+ and Child/Concs
enquire for exact their families
no interval
£6.50
dates.
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
Stage not
w 3m x d 3m IN: 1 hour
3 (2 actors, required but
OUT: 30 mins
1 technician) preferred for h 3m
good sightlines
SOUND REQUIREMENTS LIGHTING NEEDS PROMOTER MIN. FEE WORKSHOPS
PA required to plug £300 For an additional fee
in laptop (Or Co. Blackout desirable
clowning workshop
will provide own but not absolutely Full Price:
and a talk on plastic
Bluetooth speaker) essential £550 pollution available
For more information visit: Facebook.com/brightbuoyLive Arts At The Heart Of Your Community
Spring 2020 Season
What’s Coming Out Of The Box: Bonhomme
Bonhomme is a family show built with mud and
powered by thoughts. It will leave you with dirty
hands and a wondering mind. Based in a
community garden, this new immersive and
participatory show seamlessly blends story-
telling, clay modelling, object theatre, live music
and philosophy for children.
What’s Coming out of the Box firmly believes that
children’s theatre should not shy away from big
juicy topics. The long-term vision of the Company
is to contribute to making the world a better place
through the arts. Children are natural
philosophers and start to question the world
around them very early on. We enjoy asking big
questions to small people. What makes a good
human? This is the philosophical question we
Capacity: 40 Children, 60 adults
examine in Bonhomme with children aged 5- Up to two shows (or show and w/shop) per day
8, using the Golem myth for loose inspiration.
Both children were transfixed for the whole 60 minutes. The piece gently introduces children to the
notions of 'what makes a good person' by weaving a storyline about a community garden project. The
children are involved throughout. [...] Clever, thought provoking, interactive children's theatre touching
on hard subject matter in a gentle and interactive way Emily Ghassenpour (parent)
Awesome fun getting kid’s hands dirty and creating lovely positive ideas to encourage goodness and
well-being Lana Sulliivan (parent)
Mind blowing Bertie (aged 7)
Promoter Information
AVAILABLE DATES TARGET AUDIENCE SHOW DURATION MIN REC. TICKET PRICE
Age Suitability: Adults
March & April 5 – 8 year olds 1 hour Child/Concs
and their families £6.50
COMPANY SIZE STAGE REQUIREMENTS SPACE REQUIRED KEY TIMES
Stage not required,
w 10m x d 8m IN: 2 hours
3 actors, this show is
OUT: 2 hours
1 technician performed on the h 2m
floor
SOUND & LIGHTING OTHER REQUIREMENTS PROMOTER MIN. FEE WORKSHOPS
£400 for 2 shows Please enquire
Self Chairs for adults to sit or 1 show and
on, or Company can 1 w/shop in a day for details
sufficient
bring benches. Full Price: £700
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