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Voulez-vous une Tasse de Thé?

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:24:41 +0000

Mais oui, mais oui!

Zis week Wet Pique-Nique are getting zeir udders polished and zeir teabags at ze ready, to go to Rouen for ze street theatre festival, Fish and Chips.

We are very excited to take a little bit of British to France, but of course, we are practising our best french accents so zat we can do some of ze show in franglais - what else?!

Do come along and join us for some nice hot tea during what promises to be a chilly festival - last year it snowed!! See you there, you won’t miss us - we are the ones with the giant tea trollies and a man-sized Show Cow!

26th and 27th January 2012
6.30pm and 9pm

Au revoir!

Welcome to 2012!

Mon, 2 Jan 2012 10:06:47 +0000

Well hello hello, and welcome to 2012!!

This year looks to be a very busy and exciting one for Wet Picnic with the making of The Birthday Party in March, the final performance of Depth Charge in April, the making of Death and Gardening in May and then all systems go for the touring of these shows, without forgetting, of course, Time For Tea and The Dinner Table.

Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming performances and of course, you can read all about rehearsals and look at the pictures right here on our lovely website.

Time For Tea warms up Newbury

Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:27:47 +0000

What a chilly Saturday it was this weekend...
and what a perfect excuse for a hot cup of tea to warm up your hands...

Well have no fear, as our tea ladies were there!

Despite a rather wet start to the morning, the sleet soon cleared up leaving us with a nice clear sky for our lovely ladies to go out and serve the good people of Newbury.

With new tea lady, Mary Eddowes from The Wierdy Beardies, here to play, and a brand new opening dance as well as Ernie’s tea drinking exercises we had lots of new surprises up our sleeves for our audiences who seemed more than happy to take a break from their manic Christmas shopping to take part in the fun.

One man even sent us a lovely email...

‘My kids and I were enduring a harsh session of xmas shopping on saturday when these 3 glamorous lovelies pushing tea trolleys flitted past us in a parade of dance, smiles and insanity.

We were irresistibly drawn into the most fantastic of impromptu shows, which had us in stitches and forgetting of the cold.’

Thank you very much for getting in touch, we are very glad you enjoyed yourselves!

The Tea Ladies next appearance will be at Fish and Chips in Rouen on 26th and 27th January 2012.

The new Table has arrived.....

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:28:26 +0000

An exciting start to the week as our trusty and wonderfully talented set designer, Adam, came all the way down to Newcastle with a brand new table just for us!

It is an exact replica of The Dinner Table we currently have, except, wait for it..... it can drive itself!!

He has modelled it on an old golf buggy and along with a lot of welding, cutting, chopping, sawing and hidden steering technology has created the ultimate table which appears to glide along all by itself.

Eastleigh residents didn’t quite know what had hit them as the streets, roads and parks were taken over by a young man driving past on his giant dinner table - accompanied by the rest of us sat around it drinking tea and knitting!

If you ever see a giant table going down the road in front of you then give us a honk!

Welcome to Depth Charge

Mon, 5 Dec 2011 10:27:46 +0000

Wet Picnic had a very busy week last week at Gunwharf Quays as we prepared for the first Depth Charge performance. This was the first of two shows (the second is in April) and was a research performance to try out lots of ideas for the big finale in April 2012.

The Police Station was transformed as if by magic into a 1940s style Log Room, where a group of scientists had accidentally torn ruptures in the timeline of Gunwharf Quays while they were playing with time causing history to explode back to life all around them.

The audience, who were enlisted as Professors, Doctors, Engineers, Surgeons and Inspectors, were gathered for a briefing before setting off around the site with one of the science team to see where the ruptures were happening and to fix them.

There saw the women from home dancing for the men to come back, launched their own sails off to sea, heard the voices of the past, watched divers and met Admiral Vernon himself, and ended at the plaza which was transformed into an installation of sound, light and the orary which unearthed the story of Commander Crabbe.

It was a very exciting event, and we had a sold out show which the good people of Portsmouth all seemed to enjoy! Hoorah and on to the next in April - keep your eyes peeled for photos and opportunities to get involved coming soon...