Dutch Elm Conservatoire in: PRISON
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2005 Perrier Award Nominees Dutch Elm Conservatoire in: PRISON.
Following last year's runaway success, when they scooped a Perrier Award nomination, and played sell-out shows in Edinburgh, the West End and a subsequent UK Tour, acclaimed comedy group Dutch Elm Conservatoire return with a brand new show . PRISON.
This time, the five-strong team of writer-performers faces life behind bars, in the latest of their trademark theatrical but chaotic play-cum-sketch shows, directed by Ed Curtis. But this is no ordinary prison. This is Detention Facility 41 or .The Island. - a mysterious, idiosyncratic
prison containing a wide range of the bad, the ugly and the misunderstood. Key inmates include: Henry Beauregard, The Island's longest serving inmate, master forger and owner of a pet butterfly called Mr Wendel; Morris Chessman, a bent lawyer with the voice of Sammy Davis Jr and the hair of Brian May; gun-toting Furious P, a rap-loving gangland boss who isn't quite straight outta of Compton.; convicted smuggler Ramone Salazar, who.s got a fire in his heart, smack in his belly and pirate DVDs in his lower intestine; and new boy Brian Dipper Dyer, a former rollercoaster designer who.s heading straight for The Chair.
These inmates lead a quiet and strangely pleasant existence under the benign dictatorship of Dieter, their apathetic Governor;. However, following a visit from Prison Inspector Rossovich, a selfloathing former US drill instructor with a mouth like a sewer and a nice line in metaphors, their lives could soon be turned upside down. So can this motley group of societal rejects somehow contrive to convince Rossovich that their high-security hotel really is the hellhouse he.d like it to be? The kind that enjoys riots, warden beatings and widespread corruption? . They have just one week...
Combining sketch comedy, high drama, live music and a fair dollop of suspect choreography, Dutch Elm Conservatoire in PRISON is both tightly scripted theatre and free-flowing farce. from a live sketch group that is considered to be "a good head above the rest" (Sunday Times).
PRESS CONTACT:
David Burns
Phone: 07789 754 089
Email: david@burningissuespr.com
ABOUT THE GROUP:
.HILARIOUS . NOT A MOMENT IS WASTED. !!!!! The Scotsman
.FAULTLESS. SHARP WRITING, PERFECT PERFORMANCES. The Sunday Times
.A CUT ABOVE THE USUAL SKETCH SHOW. The Guardian
Dutch Elm Conservatoire are Stephen Evans, Jim Field Smith, Rufus Jones, Jordan Long, Renton Skinner. They have been performing together since early 2003, starting out on the London circuit and quickly building to a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre in January 2004. This is their third visit in as many years to the Edinburgh Fringe: their debut self-titled Fringe show in 2004 received widespread critical acclaim; their second visit in 2005 saw them turn a corner into a more narrative format with .CONSPIRACY., earning them a Perrier Award nomination. They have recently completed a hugely successful UK tour, and have been commissioned to develop that show for television with a major independent production company. They have a vast range of individual writing and performing credits across TV and radio . and between them have infiltrated seemingly every recent comedy series, including HYPERDRIVE (BBC), MIKE BASSETT (ITV), SNUFF BOX (BBC), SECRET SMILE (ITV), PEEP SHOW (C4), DEEP TROUBLE (BBC R4), ARMANDO IANNUCCI.S CHARM OFFENSIVE (BBC R4) to name but a handful.
For more information on the show and the group, please visit www.dutchelm.co.uk
2005 Perrier Award Nominees Dutch Elm Conservatoire in: PRISON.
Following last year's runaway success, when they scooped a Perrier Award nomination, and played sell-out shows in Edinburgh, the West End and a subsequent UK Tour, acclaimed comedy group Dutch Elm Conservatoire return with a brand new show . PRISON.
This time, the five-strong team of writer-performers faces life behind bars, in the latest of their trademark theatrical but chaotic play-cum-sketch shows, directed by Ed Curtis. But this is no ordinary prison. This is Detention Facility 41 or .The Island. - a mysterious, idiosyncratic
prison containing a wide range of the bad, the ugly and the misunderstood. Key inmates include: Henry Beauregard, The Island's longest serving inmate, master forger and owner of a pet butterfly called Mr Wendel; Morris Chessman, a bent lawyer with the voice of Sammy Davis Jr and the hair of Brian May; gun-toting Furious P, a rap-loving gangland boss who isn't quite straight outta of Compton.; convicted smuggler Ramone Salazar, who.s got a fire in his heart, smack in his belly and pirate DVDs in his lower intestine; and new boy Brian Dipper Dyer, a former rollercoaster designer who.s heading straight for The Chair.
These inmates lead a quiet and strangely pleasant existence under the benign dictatorship of Dieter, their apathetic Governor;. However, following a visit from Prison Inspector Rossovich, a selfloathing former US drill instructor with a mouth like a sewer and a nice line in metaphors, their lives could soon be turned upside down. So can this motley group of societal rejects somehow contrive to convince Rossovich that their high-security hotel really is the hellhouse he.d like it to be? The kind that enjoys riots, warden beatings and widespread corruption? . They have just one week...
Combining sketch comedy, high drama, live music and a fair dollop of suspect choreography, Dutch Elm Conservatoire in PRISON is both tightly scripted theatre and free-flowing farce. from a live sketch group that is considered to be "a good head above the rest" (Sunday Times).
PRESS CONTACT:
David Burns
Phone: 07789 754 089
Email: david@burningissuespr.com
ABOUT THE GROUP:
.HILARIOUS . NOT A MOMENT IS WASTED. !!!!! The Scotsman
.FAULTLESS. SHARP WRITING, PERFECT PERFORMANCES. The Sunday Times
.A CUT ABOVE THE USUAL SKETCH SHOW. The Guardian
Dutch Elm Conservatoire are Stephen Evans, Jim Field Smith, Rufus Jones, Jordan Long, Renton Skinner. They have been performing together since early 2003, starting out on the London circuit and quickly building to a sell-out run at the Soho Theatre in January 2004. This is their third visit in as many years to the Edinburgh Fringe: their debut self-titled Fringe show in 2004 received widespread critical acclaim; their second visit in 2005 saw them turn a corner into a more narrative format with .CONSPIRACY., earning them a Perrier Award nomination. They have recently completed a hugely successful UK tour, and have been commissioned to develop that show for television with a major independent production company. They have a vast range of individual writing and performing credits across TV and radio . and between them have infiltrated seemingly every recent comedy series, including HYPERDRIVE (BBC), MIKE BASSETT (ITV), SNUFF BOX (BBC), SECRET SMILE (ITV), PEEP SHOW (C4), DEEP TROUBLE (BBC R4), ARMANDO IANNUCCI.S CHARM OFFENSIVE (BBC R4) to name but a handful.
For more information on the show and the group, please visit www.dutchelm.co.uk
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