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ON TOUR SEP  2008
'An Honorary Yorkshireman' is a lively new one-man play by Kate Bramley based on the life and stories of Yorkshire hero James Herriot
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Starring Phil Yarrow

 

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ON TOUR OCT/ NOV 2008

'Laurel and Charlie'
A new comic drama by Kate Bramley

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Reviews

For 'Amy Johnson' - Written and directed by Kate Bramley

'a sensitive play... directed with a sure hand...an inspired success... a master stroke of theatre' Avis Carminez, Eastern Press

'the writing is authentic and economical...successfully turning piles of contemporary diaries, letters and newspaper reports into an engaging guide to this special woman's life.... as I left the theatre    I felt ashamed that I had not known more about this record breaking Hull export, and  Bramley's respect for her subject was infectious'. Tracy Fletcher, Hull Daily Mail

'Badapple Theatre Company presents an enthralling portrait of a woman who chases her dream....(and have) succeeded in shedding new light on a true pioneer'. Margaret Woods, Halifax Courier

For 'Marlowe, meet Raymond Chandler' - Written and directed by Kate Bramley

'a witty look at writers and their work....Guiliano Neri as Phillip Marlowe has (a) world weary cynicism that provides much of the plays humour' Kathryn Cecil, Hull Daily Mail

For 'Fighting The Tide' - Written and directed by Kate Bramley with songs and music by Jez Lowe.

'It is nice to see something original and “Fighting the Tide” was just that. This musical play by Kate Bramley deals with the promise that things will get better, but of course they never do, a promise that has been and will continue to be made till the end of time. The time in this instance is just beyond now...Some nice songs emerge from the story, the most notable of which is “The net me father left me” and the man responsible was Jez Lowe writing his first music and lyrics for the stage — something he should do again...' BA Entertainment Online.

For 'Still Marilyn' - Written and directed by Kate Bramley

'After 1998's high-flying Amy Johnson, the detection work of Marlowe, Meet Raymond Chandler and the trawling tale of Fighting The Tide, Bramley has taken on another subject with history and mystery in equal measure: Marilyn Monroe.

This is her biggest challenge with the biggest budget so far - £21,000 in project funding - as Bramley looks anew at "the most famous movie star of all time, the most famous woman on earth".

She picks up the Marilyn story at its crescent in the early 1950s, and follows her through a decade in which she would marry sporting hero Joe DiMaggio (not seen in the play) and playwright Arthur Miller (one of four characterisations taken on by Patrick Poletti, along with Clark Gable, both imagined and real, and Jack Kennedy).

We also see Jane Russell (Cristina Gavin), confident, composed and chic, as she and Marilyn work on a dance routine for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. It is late, Marilyn (Gilly Cohen) is desperately concerned to get it right, and even then, her coach would be turning up later still.

That is a typical vignette from Bramley's portrait, an affectionate, admiring work that seeks to balance the tragic vulnerability and rising neuroses with the burning brightness of a starlet who read James Joyce's Ulysses and Edgar Allan Poe, knew her politics (and not only through bedroom intimacy with the Kennedys) but struggled with demons and pills.

That struggle is depicted as both external and internal: Marilyn's intelligence had to break through the `dumb blonde' barrier and her fight for recognition as a serious actress was as much undermined by her own doubts as blonde prejudice.

At the core of Still Marilyn - and part of the reason for that Still Marilyn title along with a search for stillness and a sense of her abiding allure beyond death - is a developing relationship with a young female photographer, Mia (Gavin again). The most precious insights into her private life come in these scenes, the camera constantly on her as always, with a wall of mirrors - an echo of 1953's How To Marry A Millionaire in Ruth Paton's set - as her other regular companion.

The angular Gilly Cohen may not look like Marilyn but she moves, talks and emotes like her, still Marilyn indeed.' Charles Hutchinson, York Evening Press.

 

 

 

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