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    Can you make 'Doughnuts Like Fanny's'?
    Doughnuts Like Fanny's.
    Fanny surveys her fare

    Do you remember TV's first celebrity chef?

    A new play celebrating the life at times of the legendary Fanny Craddock is coming to Leighton Buzzard.

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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."

    Johnnie and Fanny.
    Neil 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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