Tag: Vicki McDougall

Whispers Along The Patio by David Cregan, Orange Tree Theatre, 20 October 2001

Frankly, we remember little about this one. A gentle comedy, is the description. We might have been gently getting over the terminal dullness of our preceding evening’s visit to The National to see Luther.

Here’s a clip from The Gazette & Herald from August, when it opened in Scarborough:

Whispers Gazette Whispers Gazette 16 Aug 2001 Gazette and Herald (York, North Yorkshire, England) Newspapers.com

Similar messaging in The Epsom Herald a couple of months later:

Whispers Epsom Whispers Epsom 26 Oct 2001 Epsom Comet (Epsom, Surrey, England) Newspapers.com

Ah, there was a formal review in the Guardian, from Scarborough:

Whispers Hickling Guardian Whispers Hickling Guardian 10 Aug 2001 The Guardian (London, Greater London, England) Newspapers.com

This clearly wasn’t the very best week of theatre we have ever encountered.

Flyin’ West by Pearl Cleage, Orange Tree Theatre, 21 September 2001

In honesty I remember little about this one and the log is silent.

Sadly, it seems that no-one in what is now the Newspapers.com stable reviewed it at the Orange Tree. Just a few adverts in the papers to be found.

I have the programme, so absolutely all is not lost. Jax Williams, Miquel Brown, Karen Bryson, Rex Obano, Tracey Saunders and Howard Saddler comprised the cast. Auriol Smith directed.

Here is an almost review from newsshopper.com

Best I can do.

The script is available for borrowing on the Internet Archive, which is cool. Click here.

Best I can do.

It’s quite a long play – Janie notes that we expected to leave the Orange Tree at 10:15. Don Fernando will have taken us at that time, even on a Friday evening. Thank goodness.

The Women of Troy by Euripides & This Cookie May Contain Nuts by Tracey Hitchen, Orange Tree Theatre, 9 June 2001

This was an unusual double-bill of short plays at the Orange Tree, both women-oriented, I think directed by some young women on an apprenticeship scheme.

We rather enjoyed it.

The Women Of Troy is hardly a bundle of laughs. But the second play was an interesting take on modern web-based technologies, quite prescient I should think from the turn of the century if we were to see it again today.

I can only find one local review, which rated the evening pretty highly:

Troy Cookies Troy Cookies 15 Jun 2001 Barnes, Mortlake and Sheen Times (London, London, England) Newspapers.com

We’ll have gone to Don Fernando’s after that three hour epic and had a pretty late night.

We went to David Highton’s 50th birthday party in West Ealing the next day. Gosh we were troopers back then.