Prime Cuts
- 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
The Best Of Flying Pig 1998 to 2001
Isn't that blurb a bit familiar?
Invited to attend the first Aberdeen Comedy Festival, and rub shoulders with such local comedy luminaries as Patrice and John McRuvie, we prepared our very first best of show to relive those exciting comedy moments of yesteryear whilst also giving our audience a chance to see sketches that had, by now, past into comedy legend.
Our greatest hits went head to head with Singalonga Sound of Music
at HMT but that did not worry us unduly. Packed houses enjoyed the best of pig and, we felt, the audience enjoyed the show at least half as much as we did. But then we always have twice as much fun as you...
Shh, it's a 'greatest hits' blurb...
The Inside Story
Alan Franchi’s kind invitation to headline the first Arts Centre Comedy Festival with a “Best Of” show took us (a) by surprise and (b) from our compact and bijou home at the Lemon Tree to a venue more than twice its size.
Ever positive and forwards-looking, we hypothesised (and fretted) that :
a larger venue + material the punters have heard before
=
loss of intimacy + audience ennui
=
no bugger laughing
We needn’t have worried; the laugh which greeted Archie and Davie’s reminiscences of Gothenburg 1983 nearly blew John and Pikey’s flat caps off, and Oli’s impassioned impression of Chewbacca singing the works of Barbara Dickson almost hospitalised one loyal fan, which is always nice.
And so we partied, again at Greg’s, where in the wee small hours a well-lubricated member of the company (who must remain nameless, but was a 6’ 3” tall Yorkshireman) threatened to do unspeakable things to a visibly-shocked Andrew before attempting to get the lamp-posts and traffic lights to join him in some community singing on the way home. Six months later, Greg’s announcement to his neighbours that he was to be moving was met with ill-disguised joy.
Cast & Production Team
Cast
Written by
Directed by
- John Hardie
Musical Arrangements
- Steve Rance
- Craig Pike
Properties
- Christine Knox
Set Designer
- Susan Ball
Lighting Design
- Kay Donaldson
Sound
- Donnie Mann
- Steve Fleming
Stage Manager
- Alan 'Ox' Webster
Deputy Stage Manager
- Pete Thomson
Assistant Stage Manager
- Graeme MacIntosh
Follow Spot
- Paul Silver
Poster Design
- Gordon Murrison
Sponsors
- Town & County
- The Press and Journal
- Gardner Accounts