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In
January 2004, 12lb Actor's Susie Riddell (producer/ actor) and Paul
Magson (writer) celebrated the first birthday of their Birmingham-based
theatre company by announcing the imminent arrival of their second
play.
The acting is first class and the writing accomplished.  |
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Culture
Wars (about Dog
Sh**?)
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Following
the critically acclaimed Whatever Happened to White Dog Sh**? comes
Paul Magson's new play, Smuggling Peanuts.
With more front than Blackpool, Smuggling Peanuts is a feisty and
fun-filled frolic into fate, fidelity and friendship. Our heroines,
sexy singletons Poppy and Penny, who are not on the rebound, over-indulge
on the excesses of the twentysomething female in the decade aptly
named 'the noughties'.
Paul
once again buddies-up as co-director with Jon Morris of Schism Theatre
who is also the new mac Youth Theatre Director. The effervescent
Susie produces and also plays Poppy.
New
members
12lb Actor's previous success has attracted the exciting and vibrant
talent of new 12lb-ers, Ruth Harrell, Jo Tucker and Ruth Butler.
Ruth H partners Susie on-stage as the luck-lacking Penny, and Jo
and Ruth B unite with the backstage creative team.
With friends and associates, Mandy and Claire at The Ivy Bush, 12lb
Actor recently held a fundraising School Disco. Scuffed knees, short
skirts and snogging-behind-the-bikesheds aplenty, a packed house
partied away to karaoke, quizzes, confessions and Mistress Mandy's
Caning Corner.
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Ruth
Harrell & Susie Riddell
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Smuggling
Peanuts premieres in June at the Hexagon, mac and The Ivy Bush before
transferring to the Festival Fringe to thrust the bra into the Edinbra
Festival!
After the exhausting schedule of Dog Sh**? last year, when the play
was presented at six venues across Birmingham and Edinburgh, we
said we'd have to be nuts to do it all again. Well, we are nuts
- we're Smuggling Peanuts!
| PERFORMANCES |
 Hexagon
Theatre, mac
Cannon
Hill Park
June 2 - 5 @ 7.30pm
Tickets: 拢6.50 (拢5.00)
Box Office: 0121 440 3838
The
Ivy Bush
Hagley Road, Edgbaston
June
9 - 10 @ 7.30pm
Tickets: 拢4.00
Buy from The Ivy Bush or on the door
Venue
54, C Central
August 6 - 30 @ 12.15am
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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