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Leighton
Buzzard Theatre
5 November 2002
Time: 8.00pm
Box Office: 01525 378310
Quondam
is a small-scale national touring theatre company based in
Cumbria.
Founded
in 1992 by director Andy Booth, the company concentrates exclusively
on new writing.
Doughnuts
Like Fanny's is the 10th national tour.
In
1998, Quondam was awarded a lottery grant to develop its new
building in Penrith, which besides being the company's HQ,
provides excellent facilities for disabled arts.
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At
the end of one of Fanny Craddock's famous TV shows, her husband
Johnnie turned to the watching millions - "Great cooking",
he said "is making doughnuts like Fanny's."
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Gore and Sandra Hunt star as Johnnie and Fanny Craddock |
The
phrase passed into legend and is the title of Quondam Theatre's
latest touring play, coming to the Leighton Buzzard Theatre in November.
Ridiculous,
glamorous and rather frightening, Fanny Craddock was quite extraordinary,
and the flamboyant character of the 'doughnut diva' illuminated
the dark post-war days of rationing.
With
her strange mask-like face, ordering Johnnie about as she strutted
between counter and cooker, she introduced a new range of sophisticated
foods - such as the prawn cocktail - to the nation!
By
the 1960s, she had turned cooking into an art, with such colourful
delicacies as blue eggs and green potatoes.
Her
henpecked husband endured her public bullying, but in private, theirs
was one of the great love stories of the age.
Doughnuts
Like Fanny's by Julia Darling looks at the life and times of this
famous couple and uses music and comedy to uncover the woman behind
the mask.
As
director Fine Time Fontayne says, "It's souffle, sex and songs"!
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