Last Tango in Powis
- 1998 - Last Tango in Powis
- 1999 - Where Seagulls Dare
- 2000 - Clockwork Sporran
- 2001 - All Quiet on the Westburn Front
- 2001 - Prime Cuts
- 2002 - The Madness of Kingswells
- 2004 - The Hunchback of Walker Dam
- 2004 - Best Back
- 2005 - The Seagull Has Landed
- 2007 - Desperate Fishwives
- 2007 - The Flying Pigs Radio Show - Series 1
- 2008 - The Flying Pigs Radio Show - Series 2
- 2009 - How To Look Good Glaikit
1998
Weel, it wiz different.
The people behind such sell-out HMT Student Show successes as Scaffie Society
and The Sound Of Mastrick
have put the last five years of experience to good use with this distinctive mixture of local humour and inspired silliness.
This irreverent and fast-paced delight was certainly the comic highlight of the second half of the penultimate week in February 1998.
WARNING: This show contained some strong language, and traces of Daniel O'Donnell.
The Inside Story
Anticipation (coupled with anxiety, leavened with a touch of raw fear) was the watchword as Flying Pig taxied down the runway for the first time.
As a new company performing new material in an unfamiliar theatre, we really had no idea what to expect. This didn’t make it easy to sell tickets. (Picture the conversation; “Will you buy a ticket?” “What can I expect?” “I really have no idea.”) Would the audience laugh? And if so, would they laugh at the bits they were supposed to laugh at, or some ghastly tragedy unfolding before them? Nor were jangling nerves soothed by a shocker of a technical rehearsal during which it became clear that we had created a show with more lighting and sound cues than an evening out with Jean Michel Jarre. When the first night audience was bid welcome to the “Dress Rehearsal” which later concluded with a bow taken to the strains of “The Great Escape” little did the audience know that we were not entirely joking.
Reviews were mixed, but the audience reaction was very positive. And so we partied, in the Mudd Club of all places, where Greg – not normally an energetic exponent of dance – gave an interpretation of “Brimful of Asha” so spirited that he broke the glasses of a startled bystander. Sorry Kenny.
Cast & Production Team
Cast
- Scott Christie
- Shirley Cummings
- John Hardie
- Oli Knox
- Fiona Lussier
- Craig Pike
- Dave Quaite
Written by
Additional Material by
- Grant Campbell
- John Hardie
- Ewan MacGillivray
- Charles Sandison
Directed By
- John Hardie
Stage Managed by
- Richard 'Biz' Bauermeister
Sponsors
- Jock's Bar
- Enterprise Oil
- Marathon Oil U.K. Ltd
- Raeburn Christie
What the Papers Said
Review by Roddy Phillips
Aberdeen Press & Journal, 20/2/98
'The newly formed Flying Pig Productions is the only company with the foresight and the common decency to supply me with a ready made review, or at least "from my goodself" and the back of their programme.
"Every word was a gem", it read, "it's the order they were put in that worried me".
A banquet of belly-laughs.. superbly performed.. if you can get a ticket for it, you'll be very lucky.
After laughing all the way through Flying Pigs' first hilarious comedy revue, Last Tango In Powis, at the Lemon Tree Studio Theatre last night, I'm more than happy to agree with the first part of that quote.
Written by Andrew Brebner and Greg Gordon, and directed by John Hardie, this show is precisely what happens when talent and material boil over during the preparation for the Aberdeen Students Charities Show.
Not that Last Tango is a light snack of mouldy leftovers. Anything but, this show is a banquet of belly laughs that will leave you completely stuffed.
Superbly performed by Scott Christie, Shirley Cummings, John Hardie, Oli Knox, Fiona Lussier, Craig Pike and Dave Quaite, Last Tango takes a swipe at everything from the legal profession to sleekit flatulence.
But first and foremost, it is a North-east show and it doesn't care who knows it.
It runs until Saturday at The Lemon Tree and if you can get a ticket for it, you'll be extremely lucky.'