There is a lot of excitement in the Kat office for 2022! We are continuing our development of our touring sign language drama workshops and starting to look at creating a new touring performance piece. All top secret at present, but it may well involve our old friend ‘The Big Bad Wolf’… In the meantime, our offices are closed until early in January 2022, and we send happiest of seasonal greetings to ALL.
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Touring again….and a blast from the past
This is a delightful yet very old photo of the ‘Commedia Clowns’ Company which was only the fifth Krazy Kat Company show we ever created! We are a jolly bunch of Kinny, Alastair, Joanna Tagney and Keith Boehm, and it was a summer tour, with this shot taken in Edinburgh by David Liddle outside the big country house we used to live and rehearse in. Massive thanks to Su Skelton, one of our designer creatives, for unearthing this artefact! Now, in Autumn 2021, we are back on the road with Kinny’s one-grandad ‘Cinder-Ella’, and it’s a joy to see old friends and make some new ones…
The Autumn and Winter tours approach…
The bookings are being confirmed, travel being sorted, accommodations being booked… once again The Kats are preparing to hit the road for our Autumn and Winter travels. There are always so many things to organise with so many things to remember, and at this point in the preparations there are rehearsals, meetings and countless e mails to process. Busy, busy and so pleased that we are heading into the rest of 2021 with a spring in our step! Onwards!
Another year to celebrate the Kats
It was April Fool on the 1st of April and also the 39th Birthday of The Krazy Kat Theatre Company. From our early days in Woodlands of Durris up in beautiful Aberdeenshire, to our years based in Bolton, then London and now sunny Brighton, we have so delighted in the touring. It’s been 39 years of meeting new people, learning new skills and laughing our way around the globe. Here’s to our next year of Krazy Katting! (The photo one of our favourites of the cast of ‘A Victorian Mikado’- Kinny Gardner, Jim Fish and Tinca Leahy, designed by Chris de Wilde).
Spring arrives and so do the Kats…
As the flowers start to bloom so, once again, does The Krazy Kat Theatre Company. We have been cooking up plans with the wonderful ‘Rigor Mortis Tortoise’, recording songs and filming bits and pieces, looking forward to when we can launch the 2021 extravaganza on the world! Of course as soon as we are allowed we will be back on the road and already we can announce that we have received some funding to allow this to happen. Onwards into a brighter 2021! In the meantime, here is a delightfully silly composite photo of some of our early works, lots of bright colours and the talents of Alastair S Macmillan and and our Dutch co-artist Alice Ruytiers joining Dr. Kinny in a daft memory of much enjoyed silliness! Photos all by the talented Robert Workman Theatre Photographer — Robert Workman Theatre Photographer , click the name to visit his website…
It’s only August and look who are coming back…
And not just those dreadful Ugly Sisters, but Cinder-Ella and Dr. Kinny Gardner too! After the worry and slurry of the last few months, the Kats are thrilled to announce we have secured a bit of funding to put in place a Covid 19 friendly tour of our favourite ever show. More news as dates are finalised, but we wanted to get the good news out there immediately, and start the rebuilding and the healing process with our Kat colleagues, programmers and friends. Onwards into the next part of 2020!
Kats in the time of uncertainty…
With all the upheavals happening at present, all the Kats are happy to tell you that they are safe, healthy and keeping busy. We are pleased to tell you that most of our funders are being supportive still, and are encouraging us to continue to plan for the upcoming shenanigans that will be occurring in the not too distant future. This is a photo of a theatrical tradition, called spookily ‘The Ghost Light’. However, it’s not spooky at all, in fact it’s very practical as it’s left on the stage in a theatre at night time to shed a light so no one working at night falls off the stage! And here, we at The Krazy Kat Theatre Company place it on our website, to remind us all that the curtain will rise again…very,very soon.
It’s a Leap Year Month and Fundraising Continues
An extra day this month will allow for further administration, preparing for our next projects, and continuing the current round of Kat fundraising. Our Artistic Director is writing, e mailing and chasing up all over the U.K., and we have already funds in place from Arts Council England, The Alchemy Trust, The R S Brownless Charitable Trust and from the Edward Gostling Foundation. As they say in that old advert “Every little helps”, and we remain very grateful to the generosity of all the Trusts and Foundations that we have the pleasure of dealing with. More news as it happens- and enjoy your extra 24 hours on 29th of February 2020!
Heads Up for Scott Brooker our puppet maker extraordinary
Here’s a lovely article all about Scott, who has been the Krazy Kat puppet maker/creationist/ problem solver and inspiration for many years. Delighted to see him getting some well deserved recognition! If you can, get along to the Hackney Empire for their jolly pantomime, and delight in his creations…https://www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/2019/scott-brooker-from-spitting-image-and-jim-henson-to-the-puppets-of-hackney-empires-panto/
Krazy Kat and a new disabled theatre work in Brighton…
We have just started working with the prestigious Darkness Productions on a new play about disability, rehearsing and playing in Brighton, just near our office. Our busy Artistic Director is assisting with some of the access issues around this challenging new play with songs, written by local artist Damian Darkness. It’s a quirky piece of new writing and will be running for a few performances at The Purple Playhouse in November 2019. Oh, and Kinny also plays ‘George’, a care client who also sings a few songs…busy, busy!
