Getting the show on the road!

Today's the day!

The lorry is packed with scenery and props, the costumes steam cleaned, the gastropods rounded up and the poems hidden away where Christine won't find them....Here we go everyone!

Grassington Festival Fringe, Methodist Church, Chapel Lane Grassington.

Doors Open 7.30, kick off 8pm.

SEE YOU THERE!

ROAD WORKS? ROAD CLOSED???

A Double Dose of Lippy Logic with Christine Hooley and Veronica Caperon at Grassington Festival Fringe on Wednesday 26th June 8pm at The Chapel - Methodist Church. Tickets £6. Box office: 01756 752691. Tickets also available at Crossleigh Stores, Austwick 015242 51415

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So North Yorks County Council Highways Department has chosen the week of our performance to dig up the main trunk road the A65 through Gargrave and close the road on the night of our performance. The road will be disrupted between 9.30am and 3.30pm and then CLOSED from 7pm to midnight. Diversions from the Settle area will take you via Long Preston and Guisburn to the A59, then on to Skipton. 

You may wish to allow extra time or look at an alternative route

BUT WE WILL NOT BE THWARTED!!! The show will go on.

REHEARSALS are in full flow (eternal thanks to John and Richard for their endless patience!)

SCENERY is being prepared by the immensely creative (and patient too) Melanie

COSTUMES have been designed and made with no expense spared...

GASTROPODS AND MOLLUSCS are beating a path to our door (little do they know)

POEMS - Veronica is still trying to get Christine to let her do some of her unbelievable compositions. Christine is still resisting (having heard them all before).

THE GOOD PEOPLE OF THE METHODIST CHURCH  venue are being most helpful (Little do they know either...)

AND FINALLY....HALF THE TICKETS are sold so don't hesitate a moment longer - get your hands on these much sought after items asap!

Full programme in previous blog-post below.

HOPE TO SEE YOU WEDNESDAY WEEK!

Christine and Veronica

Here's Lippy Logic's programme!

A Double Dose of Lippy Logic with Christine Hooley and Veronica Caperon at Grassington Festival Fringe on Wednesday 26th June 8pm at The Chapel - Methodist Church. Tickets £6. Box office: 01756 752691. Tickets also available at Crossleigh Stores, Austwick 015242 51415

If you want a good show, produce it yourself!

Two women from the Settle area decided to take matters into their own hands when they couldn't find any good comedy and drama for ladies of a certain age to perform. Christine Hooley and Veronica Caperon have written their own show "A Double Dose of Lippy Logic" which they will present at the Grassington Festival Fringe in June.

When not treading the boards, Christine runs the local village shop and Veronica is a professional photographer and copywriter. "We both really enjoy doing community theatre and we want to combine comedy with more dramatic roles. But it's difficult to find suitable things, so we've put our own together!" explained Christine. However, they have designed the programme to appeal to both men and women. "We've had a hoot preparing the material. While some of the subject matter is designed to have the audience laughing out loud, other sketches are more serious and moving" Veronica added.

Some of the material is specially written for Grassington. The girls draw inspiration from everyday life: "There's a comedy sketch about our exploits as novice vegetable growers during last year's wettest ever summer. The audience can expect to come face to face with slugs and other gastropods with that one!" says Christine.

 In "Two Friends", there's a tense exchange between close friends when human frailties are unexpectedly exposed.

Despite strenuous efforts to the contrary (by unnamed 'friends'!), Veronica will do some of her poems!

The trials and tribulations of caring for ageing parents are also tackled. Veronica explained: "Christine received critical acclaim last autumn when she performed a monologue written by myself. It's about a feisty fifty-something local government officer coping with her mother's increasing frailty and we're looking forward to taking it to a wider audience".

The show is on Wednesday 26th June at 8pm at The Methodist Church in Grassington as part of the Fringe programme. Tickets (£6) are available from the Festival Box office (boxoffice@grassington-festival.org.uk, 01756 752691), as well as Crossleigh Stores in Austwick 015242 51415. 

Lippy Logic at Grassington Festival Fringe

A Double Dose of Lippy Logic with Christine Hooley and Veronica Caperon at Grassington Festival Fringe on Wednesday 26th June 8pm at The Chapel - Methodist Church. Tickets £6. Box office: 01756 752691. Tickets also available at Crossleigh Stores, Austwick 015242 51415

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Humorous and moving original writing and performance:

We can now exclusively revealed to the world more about the forthcoming Lippy Logic show...there's plenty to make you laugh, cry and, for the more outgoing, join in!

New pieces have been written specially for the show

• "Two friends" tells of the tense exchange between close friends when human frailities are suddenly exposed
• And you can enjoy the hilarious tales of two novice vegetable gardeners in "Growing Courgettes in the Yorkshire Dales!" Be ready for creatures that lurk in the veg patch to make a grisly appearance..........
• There'll be some poems from Veronica (Could we stop her?!)  "...dry wit and variety" (Ann Pilling), "gentle and tender" (Sue Vickerman)
• Performed by Christine last year to critical acclaim, "The Birthday Wish" is the witty yet touching story of Norma Knowsley a feisty, single fifty something local government officer covering the sensitive  issues of working life and ageing that face many people today.                   "...funny and poignant by turns.. ", "exceptional writing and performance", "on a par with Alan Bennet", "move over Maggie Smith!"

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Mad, Mad March!

March was a busy month for the Lippy Logic.

Some of the year we're part of Austwick Community PLayers - from November to the beginning of March. Well, that's when we being actors, In fact we're both heavily involved through the year, one as Treasurer and the other as script writer (er... Playwright if you don't mind - ED)

This year we and our fellow thespians treated the good people of Austwick, Lawkland and surrounds to an extravaganza based on what happened when the Roman Imperial Army reached that corner of North Yorkshire. It was about 122AD (exact chronology is lost in the mists of history) when bulls were oxen, men wore skirts and women wore the trousers. Said Roman Imperial Army had rings run round them by the canny local women as intrigue,enterprise and sleight of hand ruled the roost!

Your heroic Lippy Logic team played 1. a young and naive (surely Christine's most challenging rule to date) welsh girl travelling the north of England in search of her beloved Hefin and 2. Adrian the camp commander (camp by name etc etc...and the Players were short of men...so Veronica made the supreme sacrifice -again). DVD of the show available at a mere £4!

BUT NOW....
 all eyes down as Christine and Veronica get ready for the Lippy Logic show at Grassington Festival Fringe on Wednesday evening 26th June at Grassington Chapel. box office 01756 752691 www.grassington-festival.org.uk

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The Molluscs are Massing!

As the first stirrings of Spring appear amid the snowdrops and crocus - crocii - crocusiius - evidence abounds that the molluscs and gastropods are on the move to attack innocent Lippy Logic gardens in The Yorkshire Dales.

All will be revealed in due course at The Grassington Festival in June...
http://www.grassington-festival.org.uk/
If you can't wait until then, contact lippylogic@gmail.com to find out more!

So much excitement!

So much to do and so little time to do it blah blah....

It's all go for us to appear at +GrassingtonFestivalFringe on June 26th at +Grassington Chapel.

Better go and tell all that lurks in the veg patch so they can get their act together!