Dear Vox chums,
Happy new year and greetings from your legendary founder!
I’m writing to invite you all most warmly to my new production, Fritters, Blinis & Bristin, at Theatro Technis, 26 Crowndale Road NW1 1TT, on Sunday 28th January at 7.30pm. It’s a delightful evening of daft theatrical comedy, featuring three of Chekhov’s early vaudeville sketches, The Evils of Tobacco, Swansong and The Bear alongside a rarely performed early farce, One was Nude & One wore Tails, by Italian commedia maestro Dario Fo. Interspersed with silly songs from the Russian steppes and the Plains of the Po.
I shall be premiering the show in Milan a few days earlier, then returning hotfoot with my fellow performers Stephen Daltry, Jennie Eggleton and Rupert Mason, to bring you this show in London just for one evening, so please put the date in your diaries and bring your friends and spread the word!
BOOK TICKETS HERE:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theatrotechnis1/1114681
For more information: https://www.theatrotechnis.com/whatson
Look forward to seeing you there!
Love from Justin
Passion Pit Theatre in association with J.Productions, Milan & Theatro Technis presents
FRITTERS, BLINIS & BRISTIN
An Evening of Comedy
One was Nude & One wore Tails by Dario Fo
The Bear, Swansong & The Evils of Tobacco by Anton Chekhov
directed by Justin Butcher
performed by Justin Butcher, Stephen Daltry, Jennie Eggleton & Rupert Mason
Sunday 28th January at 7.30pm
Theatro Technis
26 Crowndale Road, London NW1 1TT
Duration: 2 hours, including a 15-minute interval
An acclaimed comedy cast of actor-musicians concoct an evening of absurd delight, interspersed with silly songs of the Russian steppes and the Plain of the Po.
In this brand-new English-language Anglo-Italian production of Fo’s early farce One was Nude & One wore Tails, award-winning UK playwright Justin Butcher brings Fo’s work to its home in Milan, and back to London. A zany comedy of dustbin men, naked ambassadors and nocturnal slapstick, undressing the social hierarchy.
Before writing his famous plays, Anton Chekhov was known first as a writer of vaudevilles, short comedies on themes of love, marriage and domestic absurdity. The Bear, Swansong and The Evils of Tobacco, three of his finest, funniest vaudevilles, prove a perfect counterpoint to Milanese commedia, Chekhov’s favourite fritters and blinis to Fo’s bristin.
Dario Fo
Dario Fo’s influence on modern Italy – its politics and culture – spanned the most tumultuous events of post-war history in a theatrical career of nearly 70 years, alongside his wife and collaborator Franca Rame. Nicknamed ‘Bristin’, Fo was indeed the ‘pepper’ in Italian public life for more than five decades.
Justin Butcher
Butcher has drawn lifelong inspiration from the Italian theatre legend Dario Fo: from his acclaimed anti-war satire The Madness of George Dubya to his globally renowned solo masterpiece Scaramouche Jones, Butcher’s unique blend of passion, provocation and mischief, has evolved in explicit emulation of the Milanese commedia maestro.
Vox Holloway 