Where Seagulls Dare
- 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
1999
A maelstrom of mirth.. This show is seriously funny & should not be missed!
Following the sell-out sucess of 1998's show, Flying Pig Productions returned to the Lemon Tree in June 1999 with an all-new comic sketch show entitled Where Seagulls Dare
!
Written, produced and performed by comic visionaries who are both possessed of an unnatural beauty and are also responsible for writing their own publicity, this show was a winning blend of satire, wit, local humour and basic cheek, and was certainly Flying Pig Productions' very best show since the previous one!
Why Where Seagulls Dare
?
Last Tango in Powis!
Greg: Well, that last one went very well, didn't it? Shall we do another one?
Andrew: Yes, let's.
No time was wasted in beginning preparations for the second show. Indeed, the first new sketch was composed by Greg in Jocks Bar after the opening night of Tango
;. Taking on board some of the criticisms of the more off colour
moments, expletives and bodily functioned were pruned
from the show, and confined instead to rehearsals.
More arduous preparations followed, mostly involving going to pub. There were personnel changes too, with Scott and Fiona lured away to stage school in London, and the arrival of Susan and Steve, bringing a most welcome dose of coothy Doric and arseless Northern humour to proceedings.
All the time in the pub paid off in show week with full houses and good reviews. Highlights included the debut of Aberdonian Pavement Dances. There was also the introduction of musical items, and a stronger visual style – this year, sky-ree' yellow was the dominant, if unpleasant, hue.
Party? We certainly did this time at sound man Steve's stylish Methlick abode. After a few hours of convivial chat, those still able to stand repaired to the garden for a game of drunken golf, thwacking expensive balls into a field, employing the agile Knox as retriever. Toasting the finished game with some fine port we repaired inside, whereupon our host got a thump in the eye from his missus for wasting their hugely valuable vintage port collection.
The following days press reports of vandalised crops in the Methlick area were met with some dismay…
Cast & Production Team
Cast
- Shirley Cummings
- John Hardie
- Oli Knox
- Craig Pike
- Steve Rance
- Susan Webster
Written by
Additional Material by
- Shirley Cummings
- John Hardie
- Gordon Irvine
- Susan Webster
Directed by
- John Hardie
Musical Arrangements
- Steve Rance
Properties & Set Designer
- Christine Murphy
Lighting Design
Stage Manager
- Alan 'Ox' Webster
Deputy Stage Manager
- Pete 'Legs' Thompson
Sound
- Steve Fleming
Poster Design
- Gordon Murrison
- Greg Gordon
- Andrew Brebner
Photographs & Seagull Wrangling
- Oli Knox
Comedy Headgear
- Mr John T Brebner
What the Papers Said
Review by Roddy Phillips
Aberdeen Press & Journal, 3/6/99
'Apparently I hailed the first Flying Pig production, Last Tango In Powis, as a banquet of belly-laughs which must be true, because it was.
Far be it from me to deprive the brilliantly funny Piglets of a handy bite-sized nugget of praise for their publicity material.
So here are a few gems about their current comedy show, Where Seagulls Dare, which opened at the studio theatre of Aberdeen's Lemon Tree last night.
"A cocktail of capers" is quite good, as is "a treasure chest full of chuckles". "A maelstrom of mirth" is better, or even "a lexicon of laughs!"
All of which apply, are completely true and would fit neatly on to a poster and flyer.
Written by Andrew Brebner and Greg Gordon, Where Seagulls Dare features the usual suspects.
But for this new show Hardie, Knox, Pike, and Cummings are joined by the excellent Susan Webster and the superb Steve Rance.
In all seriousness, this show is seriously funny and should not be missed.
It runs at the Lemon Tree until Saturday.'
Review by Sonja Rasmussen
Aberdeen Evening Express, 4/6/99
'What happens when the student show grows up? Well you may ask, as it doesn't happen very often. Last time Scotland the What was born. Now its the turn of Flying Pig Productions to cut loose from the apron strings with their comedy show Where Seagulls Dare.
Owing as much to Harry Enfield and chums as to Buff, Steve and George, the top comedy team of Last Tango In Powis fame pulls together yet another fun-packed evening in true North-east style.
PC Bobby Constable is present and correct, courtesy of Doric grand master Craig Pike - whose portrayals of Mr Fester the undertaker and the coothy Doric terrorist are outshone only by his double act with John Hardie, Archie and Davie.
If you lament the demise of Scotland the What?, Archie and Davie brings it all flooding back, reincarnated in the way only Buff's son could get away with.
Steven Rance, the Yorkshireman who mastered Doric for this year's student show, turns in a still impeccable local accent, while girl power is supplied in gallons by talented duo Shirley Cummings and impersonator Susan Webster.
Another year has brought new confidence, new faces, and a few necessary changes to the Flying Pigs, but I am glad to report the comedy and laughs are frequent as ever. I am already looking forward to next year.
Where Seagulls Dare can be seen again tonight and tomorrow at 7.30 p.m.'