Monday 30 November 2009

Christmas Fund Raiser for Macmillian Cancer Support and our 2010 Tour

Cheekish Productions will be having a Christmas fund raiser which will help raise money for the Macmillan Cancer Support and to our tour of Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat and Eschara next year. There will be amazing homemade mince pies, an auctioning off of one of Joseph Loughborough's paintings which he is kindly donating (his new website is www.josephloughborough.co.uk in case you didn't know), some exclusive cheekish merchandise and more.

The event will also premier Grant Watsons's (director of the Pillowman) latest short film 'The Myth of Snowfall' which will then be followed by the 1940's classic 'It's a Wonderful Life'. Details are below:


Tuesday 24 November 2009

The End of Christie in Love and a Great Year

Sorry it's been a while since my last post but I'm back with some news about our latest Cheekish antics. We have just finished our run of Christie in Love with Thrill Seeker and it really was a great production. Thank you all those who made it happen, particularly these folks:

Crew:
Dan Ayling - Director and Producer
Rhiannon Newman Brown - Design
Sally Ferguson - Lighting
Zoe Crosse and Joseph Loughborough - Artwork
Paul Bull - Sound

Cast:
Mike Aherne - Inspector
Peter Henderson - John Reginald Christie
Phillip Whiteman - Constable



Also a massive THANK YOU to the friends and family who came along and supported us. You guys are great!

Cheeksih recently attended The Guide Awards 2009 at the Kings Theatre, Southsea. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, our first production was up for Best Professional Production gong. In our category was Chicago, Enron, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Oklahoma and The Last Cigarette. These were some big productions, some of which have transferred to the West End and Broadway.



(Above) Phillip and Grant Watson (Director) on the...red carpet.

Unfortunately we didn't win. That honour went to Chicago and A Midsummer's Night Dream and a well deserved joint win it was. For us it was amazing to just be nominated, especially as The Pillowman was our first production.






(Left) Phillip in the Pillowman.

It has been an amazing year for us. We've managed to put up 4 plays this year: Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat by Mark Ravenhill and the world premier of Eschara by Phillip Whiteman at the Brighton Fringe Festival. Both plays received 5 star reviews. Contrarotulus by Phillip Whiteman, his second work as a playwright and which won the 2009 Daffodil Award for Best Overall Piece and of course the 5 star Christie in Love by Howard Brenton. The awards and amazing reviews are all testament to the outstanding direction of Dan Ayling.

Sunday 1 November 2009

A review and some photos from Christie

So Christie in Love has had its first week and it's been great. We've received a great review from The British Theatre Guide and are expecting more to follow.

We also have a new special offer for tickets. If you book online at ticket web and enter the promotional code: 'castoffer' and you can get your tickets for just £8. It's well worth it and you won't be disappointed. I was reading a little bit more about John Christie and, like all killers he collected trophies of his victims. In his case he cut off their pubic hair and kept it in little tin. There were several girls pubic hair found in the tin, however DNA sampling showed that none of the hair belonged to the victims in Chritie's garden, cupboard, washroom or his wife. Were there other victims? Who knows...