| BADAPPLE THEATRE FRIENDS SCHEME |
| Join now and strengthen our roots!
On August 1st 2008 we celebrate 10 years of successful touring productions, that started
with out first performances of 'Amy Johnson' at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998.
As part of our celebrations
we are launching, for the first time, "Friends of Badpple" Scheme to which
anyone who is interested and wishes to support us can belong.
Our "Friends" enjoy priority booking, reserved seats, newsletters, invitations
to fundraising events and other VIP priviliges.
There are two categories of membership:
1. APPLE-SEED - Minimum subcription £20 p.a., which includes two tickets each year to any
of our local village hall performances.
2. APPLE-BLOSSOM - minimum subscription £35 p.a. and which includes four tickets each
year any of our local village hall performances.
The Friends year starts on 1 August each year and is renewable annually.
If you would like more information please do contact us at the Badapple Office on 01482
339168 or take out your Membership Online right now, using the payment buttons at the top
of the page.
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FROM ROOT TO BRANCH |
| Our history and our future |
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| Badapple was founded by
Kate Bramley in 1998, harnessing her dedication as a young writer and director to a new,
vibrant company that would centre its work simply around 'telling good stories'. To this
end the company began its trademark work of new plays drawn from biographical or
historical stories. Her longstanding collaboration with designer Ruth Paton gave the shows
their unique visual style, and in March 2002 after a number of successful tours the
company became registered as a not for profit, company limited by guarantee.
In 1998 the company premiered 'Amy
Johnson', written and directed by Kate Bramley, at the Edinburgh Festival, where its
success resulted in two subsequent national tours. |
Still Marilyn 2003 |
Amy Johnson 1998
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‘Amy Johnson’ was a
new drama based on the life of the pioneer aviatrix from Hull and told the story of her
private and public life up to her mysterious and tragic death in the Second World War. The
script was initially developed by Kate after she was invited to access a new collection of
hand written letters from Amy Johnson that had recently been added to the local history
collection at Hull City Library. |
| Juliet MacLeod, picured
here in this photograph by Adrian Gatie, was the original actress to create the lead role,
and toured nationally with the original cast, to much acclaim. The replica 2/3 size
bi-plane that was created by Technical Director John Bramley and Set Designer Andy Newell
set the standard for BadApple's creativity in touring, and the set now resides in the Amy
Johnson Collection at Sewerby House Museum in Bridlington. |
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| Badapple continued to produce
top quality work with their second national touring production 'Marlowe, Meet Raymond
Chandler'. In collaboration with The Auden Theatre the company commissioned and developed
this new script from Kate, based on the life of the american novelist, and his fictional
detective hero Phillip Marlowe. With support and funding from Hull City Council and
Yorkshire Arts the company were firmly on the theatre map. |
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| 'Marlowe' saw the
company collaborating with the excellent young actor Giuliano Neri, who had already worked
with Kate and Ruth at Hull Truck Theatre. Giuliano made the pivotal role of Marlowe his
own, and showed a surety and subtlety of performance of one far older in years. The
company were much saddened by his tragic death from illness in 2002, and felt they had
lost both a talented young performer and a true friend to the company. |
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A 2002 co-production with
Trinity Arts and ontinued support from Yorkshire Arts and The National Lottery saw the
company develop a strong business foundation alongside its dramatic vision. 
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2002 saw the company
collaborate for the first time with folk music songwriter Jez Lowe on a music-drama, based
on a number of trawling stories from East Yorkshire. 'Fighting The Tide' was a departure
into a fictional folk-tale world where the lead characters were forced to contend with the
spiraling pressures of commerce and industry. The seamless blend of music and text took
the company to a new story-telling level, and the collaboration with Jez Lowe was deemed a
great success. |
| 2003 saw the largest tour to
date from the company of their 'Still Marilyn' show, based on the life of the screen
legend, and her defining relationships with photographers and screen stars alike. The show
played at York Theatre Royal and Bath Theatre Royal studios as well as a range of small to
mid scale touring venues nationally, with key support again from York City Council,
Yorkshire Arts and private funders. |
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In 2005 Kate
collaborated on behalf of Badapple, with Nonsense Room Productions on two new scripts by
Simon Beattie at Rosslyn Chapel in Edinburgh, directing both 'The Apprentice' and 'A
Christmas Carol' for the company.
'The Apprentice' was a
site-specific drama based on the lives of the stone masons responsible for creating some
of the unrivalled sculptured stonework at Rosslyn Chapel. This collaborative production
saw the Badapple aims and ambitions realised in one of the most extraordinary non-theatre
spaces. Nonsense Room, created by director Bruce Strachan and writer Simon Beattie, are in
turn creating a body of excellent theatre work that has gained them a strong reputation
across Scotland.
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 Actors
in rehearsal with Bruce Strachan, 2005 |
| Badapple re-launched their
theatre work in North Yorkshire in August 2007 with a great new one-man show from Neil
Kent, called An Honorary Yorkshireman. Made possible by the kind permission of the Wight
family, this show toured to the hills and dales of North Yorkshire in the summer of 2007. |
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The success of that show led
to a new collaboration in the Spring of 2008 with two fine actors, Phil Yarrow and Colin
Moncrieff, as well as expert clown Jason Hird. Together with the regular Badapple company
they created 'Laurel and Charlie', a new and very contemporary comedy that back to the
early music hall days of Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin. Widely regarded as the best
Badapple show to date this project had crew and audiences alike laughing until they cried!
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