TEMPESTUOUS PROGRAMME

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The Tempestuous: A Shrew’d New Comedy by Will Shakespeare and Penny Ashton

Written by Penny Ashton and William Shakespeare.

Workshop Direction by Ben Crowder.

Musical Orchestration, Composing, Conducting, Producing, Editing by Robbie Ellis

Costume Design by mainly Elizabeth Whiting with some added Penny Ashton. Construction most definitely NOT by Penny Ashton but wondrous Elizabeth.

Corset Design and construction Katie McGettigan with some added Elizabeth and Penny.

Set Design by Penny Ashton and Ben Crowder

Set Construction/Props making by Penny Ashton.

Music Recorded in the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio at WFMT Chicago with:

Suzanne Hannau – Flute

Nora Shaffer – Clarinet

Victoria Moreira – Violin

Hope Shepherd DeCelle – Cello

Dan Linsenmann – Piano

Eric Arunas – Recording Engineer

Jake Dewar – Assistant Producer

Thanks to Matthew Harvey, international cycle man of danger and excellent hugs. Ruth Spencer for all her advice and ideas. Rita Stone-Berridge for the same. Thanks to Niall Spooner Harvey for script reading and suggestions. Thanks to Allison Horsely, Murray Lynch and Salesi Le’ota at Playmarket. And thanks to allllllllll those I talked to, gleaned info from, and to those of you crazy wonderful people buying my bloody tickets!

Honestly this is my 24th year in solo showbiz. I have entertained thousands of people all over the world and don’t take for granted your buying my tickets. I so appreciate that we can all come together and laugh at the world’s nonsense as I subtly shove some feminism into you. Hope it doesn’t hurt.

Finally thanks to those I plunder mercilessly for their genius in creating my works. From Austen to Dickens and now the best giver of idioms to the English Language the world has ever known; William Shakespeare. As I said at the St Andrew’s Theatrette in Christchurch in 1990: “Thou speak’st with all thy wit” Mr Shakespeare, verily, thanks to thee.

All Musical References

(Compiled by the musical encyclopedia inside Robbie Ellis’ head)

Anonymous English: Staines Morris
Peter Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, from The Nutcracker
Felix Mendelssohn: Wedding March, from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Léo Delibes: Galop, from Coppélia
Traditional American: “Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits”
Johann Sebastian Bach: “Die Art verruchter Sünden”, from Cantata No. 54, “Widerstehe doch der Sünde”
Sergei Rachmaninov: Variation 18 from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Niccolò Paganini: Caprice No. 24
Giacomo Puccini: “E lucevan le stelle”, from Turandot
Giacomo Puccini: “Nessun dorma”, from Tosca
George Gershwin: No. 1 from Three Preludes
George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Vivaldi: Presto, from The Four Seasons: Summer
Richard Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries, from Die Walküre
Peter Tchaikovsky: Waltz of the Flowers, from The Nutcracker