Those Magnificent Men
ON THURSDAY 29TH APRIL AT 7.30PM IN LYMPSTONE VILLAGE HALL WE PRESENTED, with support from Villages in Action the New Perspectives Theatre Company in
THOSE MAGNIFICENT MEN
By any standards, it’s a classic tale of plucky British pioneers – Captain John Alcock, dashing WW1 fighter pilot, and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, navigational genius with a gammy leg, huddled together against the elements in the tiny timber and canvas cockpit of their converted Vickers Vimy biplane – in a do or die effort to win the £10,000 prize for the first ever non-stop transatlantic flight! Talk about winging it! Now critically-acclaimed comedy writing duo, Brian Mitchell & Joseph Nixon, have turned the story of the race to conquer the skies over the Atlantic into a fast and furious comic tour-de-force. Thrill to the sheer adventuring spirit of our unlikely heroes, marvel at their daredevil aerial antics, and wonder at how the whole bally thing is told with just two actors, Richard Earl and Chris Hallam, and a crate full of funny props.
“A winner of a show. It takes me back to the days of Morecambe & Wise or The Two Ronnies. Mixed with their brilliant comic timing comes a totally enthralling voyage which quickly makes you forget you're in a village hall but rather looking down at it from 8000 ft. As a night's entertainment, I couldn't recommend it more 'highly'.” Nick Flintoff (Producer of the award-winning film ‘Cloven Trail’
www.newperspectives.co.uk and www.villagesinaction.co.uk
Read the review by Grace Packman in the May Drumbeat
