Whose Book Is It Anyway
Did you know ... this was the first West Linton production to have a presence on YouTube ... or search for LyneUp for extracts from Don Quixote, Janet & John, Lady Chatterley's Lover, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Snow White, Trainspotting and more ...
The Cast:
Mick Armstrong …………………………………………………Mick Armstrong
Deb Armstrong …………………..………………………..… Deb Armstrong
Gaelle Misson …………………………………………………. Gaelle Misson
Glenda Meek…………….…………………………………..… Glenda Meek
Anna Hill (V.*) ………………………………………………… Anna Hill
Nick Halliwell ……………………………………………………. Nick Halliwell
Jacqui Halliwell ………………………………………………….Jacqui Halliwell
Fiona Wilcock …………………………………………………… Fiona Wilcock
Tommy Davidson (V.*)…………………………………… Tommy Davidson
Lucy Douglas……………….………………………………………Lucy Douglas
David Bowie …………………………………………………………David Bowie
Sandie Lloyd ……………………………………………………….Sandie Lloyd
Iain Darroch ………………………………………………………..Iain Darroch
*V. – Virgin (to LyneUp)
Produced jointly by the cast
Stage Manager ……………………………………………….... Carrie Cleland
Assistant SM & Prompt ………………………………….. Julie Myatt
Technical …………………………….…………….…………………… Steve Douglas
Bar ……………………………………………………………………… John Swan
We can't actually tell you anything about tonight's performance in this programme because it would spoil the surprise, (hence the entirely unhelpful cast list), and also because the cast are often confused as to who they are playing themselves, so here is just a little bit of waffle to keep you occupied while you fidget in your seats, waiting for this unprecedented theatrical extravaganza.
The play is based on All the Great Books (Abridged), written by two members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company – now well-known for their comic interpretations of Shakespeare, the Bible and Hollywood Movies, amongst other things. However, LyneUp did not feel that West Linton audiences would be able to cope with too much of Homer's Iliad, or Thoreau's Walden – well, we hadn't heard of that one either - so we've written a much more accessible, West-Linton friendly version (i.e. we've replaced most of the books with polysyllabic (long) titles with shorter and more fun books like Snow White, Janet & John and Lady Chatterley's Lover.
All foreign language extracts (French, Spanish, Irish and Russian) are either subtitled or really, really obvious.
Please note that there are some scenes of a disturbing nature. When Euan McGregor did them, they were rated 18. However, if you just hold your breath for 18 seconds and use the paper bag beneath your seat, you should be fine.
A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, the poetry of Keats, Yeats, Longfellow, Tennyson, T S Eliot, Gone With the Wind, Little Women, The Bible, , Janet & John, Don Quixote, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Silas Marner, Middlemarch, The Tenant of Wuthering Heights, Shirley Villette, Trainspotting, Snow White, the entire works of Enid Blyton, Ulysses, War and Peace, The Grapes of Wrath, Sherlock Holmes, The Three Musketeers, Animal Farm, Dracula, Mayor of Casterbridge,The Origin of the Species, Lord of the Flies, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Kafka, Watership Down, Interpretation of Dreams, The Aeneid, the Tao, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1984, Animal Farm, Hound of the Baskervilles, Lassie, Canterbury Tales, Alice in Wonderland, Frankenstein, The Odyssey, Heart of Darkness, Das Kapital, To Kill a Mockingbird, Moby Dick, Under Milk Wood, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Harry Potter, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Tom Jones.
