London and Win artwork with LCB skateshop and Cheekish

We had an amazing tour, finishing up in Colchester last week at the Mercury Theatre and had our first night at the Union Theatre, London, last night!!

Our press night is tomorrow night so keep an eye out for our reviews, but no doubt I will be letting you all know about them.

We have some great NEWS about our skateboarding promotion. It has kicked off in London and we are working with LCB skateshop in Shoreditch, by Brick Lane. The guys have been amazing in helping us out.

So you want to know how you can win the one of the three boards (two of them bellow) right?! Well, just pop into LCB, give them your name and some contact details, pick up a special token from them, buy a concession ticket for our show, show the token to the guys at the Union theatre and watch the show. THAT IS IT!! No joke.

We will be announcing the winners at a party held at LCB after April 24, the end of our run.

So GET ON IT. You can BUY YOUR TICKET first, and then pick up a token later. It doesn't matter. As long as you pick up a token, you will be entered into the draw.

SOLD OUT

Thanks to everyone who supported us at the New Theatre Royal last night and Congratulations to the winners of our compeittion.

We are at Norden Farm on Thursday where we have our first SELL OUT!!

Spring Tour 2010 continued

We have been very fotunate to have recieved support from Ms Zoe Wanamaker and would like to thank her.

This week brings the show to Portsmouth's New Theatre Royal on March 2 and Norden Farm, Maidenhead, on March 4.

March is a busy month for us as we are hopping from venue to venue throughtout the whole month before settling down at the Union Theatre, London, for 4-weeks.

You only have about half a day left to buy your ticket from skate shop Bored of Southsea, Portsmouth, in order to WIN one of these skateboards painted by Jo Loughborough so HURRY UP!!

Exeter Northcott on the 17-20 February

Our spring 2010 tour starts next Wednesday!! Crazy. Here's our flyer with all the details on to come check out our show.


We are also currently running a little campaign to get a new crowd into the theatres. If you are from Exeter or Portsmouth you can visit your local skate shop, The Boarding House or Bored, to and purchase a ticket to see the shows through them. If you do you get entered into a prize draw to win a LIMITED EDITION skateboard with artwork by Joseph Loughborough. You can skate them or hanging them in your room. it's up to you, but you HAVE to come to the show to be in for a chance to win one. Each venue will have 2 boards up for grabs and a Bored T-shirt in Portsmouth.

Here is the first board for Exeter.

Christmas Fund Raiser for Macmillian Cancer Support and our 2010 Tour

Cheekish Productions will be having a Christmas fund raiser which will help raise money for the Macmillan Cancer Support and to our tour of Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat and Eschara next year. There will be amazing homemade mince pies, an auctioning off of one of Joseph Loughborough's paintings which he is kindly donating (his new website is www.josephloughborough.co.uk in case you didn't know), some exclusive cheekish merchandise and more.

The event will also premier Grant Watsons's (director of the Pillowman) latest short film 'The Myth of Snowfall' which will then be followed by the 1940's classic 'It's a Wonderful Life'. Details are below:

The End of Christie in Love and a Great Year

Sorry it's been a while since my last post but I'm back with some news about our latest Cheekish antics. We have just finished our run of Christie in Love with Thrill Seeker and it really was a great production. Thank you all those who made it happen, particularly these folks:

Crew:
Dan Ayling - Director and Producer
Rhiannon Newman Brown - Design
Sally Ferguson - Lighting
Zoe Crosse and Joseph Loughborough - Artwork
Paul Bull - Sound

Cast:
Mike Aherne - Inspector
Peter Henderson - John Reginald Christie
Phillip Whiteman - Constable

Also a massive THANK YOU to the friends and family who came along and supported us. You guys are great!

Cheeksih recently attended The Guide Awards 2009 at the Kings Theatre, Southsea. The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh, our first production was up for Best Professional Production gong. In our category was Chicago, Enron, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Oklahoma and The Last Cigarette. These were some big productions, some of which have transferred to the West End and Broadway.

(Above) Phillip and Grant Watson (Director) on the...red carpet.

Unfortunately we didn't win. That honour went to Chicago and A Midsummer's Night Dream and a well deserved joint win it was. For us it was amazing to just be nominated, especially as The Pillowman was our first production.

(Left) Phillip in the Pillowman.

It has been an amazing year for us. We've managed to put up 4 plays this year: Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat by Mark Ravenhill and the world premier of Eschara by Phillip Whiteman at the Brighton Fringe Festival. Both plays received 5 star reviews. Contrarotulus by Phillip Whiteman, his second work as a playwright and which won the 2009 Daffodil Award for Best Overall Piece and of course the 5 star Christie in Love by Howard Brenton. The awards and amazing reviews are all testament to the outstanding direction of Dan Ayling.

A review and some photos from Christie

So Christie in Love has had its first week and it's been great. We've received a great review from The British Theatre Guide and are expecting more to follow.

We also have a new special offer for tickets. If you book online at ticket web and enter the promotional code: 'castoffer' and you can get your tickets for just £8. It's well worth it and you won't be disappointed. I was reading a little bit more about John Christie and, like all killers he collected trophies of his victims. In his case he cut off their pubic hair and kept it in little tin. There were several girls pubic hair found in the tin, however DNA sampling showed that none of the hair belonged to the victims in Chritie's garden, cupboard, washroom or his wife. Were there other victims? Who knows...