The ‘Fall Out’ shows
Louise
Gold was one of several professional actors roped into appearing with the ‘Fall
Out’ Company in one or other of their shows.
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note, the information the webmaster currently has
about the Fall Out shows is very sparse, so there are quite a lot of
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About
The ‘Fall Out’ group
The Fall
Out Theatre group was a
combination of amateur actors and resting professionals, mostly under the
direction of Una Brandon-Jones (an extraordinary individual who started her
theatrical career as an amateur actress, writer, director and producer at Unity
Theatre and went on to become a professional actress from 1945 onwards).
The amateurs were mostly remnants from
Because
of its close association with Unity Theatre people the Fall Out
group has sometimes been referred to as a regrouped continuation of Unity
Theatre.
Fall
Out mounted three major
shows, mainly written and directed by Una Brandon-Jones, and all three
were presented in a variety of venues, with various casts (depending on who was
available when). The three major productions were as follows:
A revue about
nuclear armaments. This was presented at the time of the Cruise missile crisis
and Greenham Common.
An Environmental Show
Gulf War - a show about the first Gulf war. (1991)
Actors: included at one time
or another
Chris Barrie
Sheila Beckett
(in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Sara Crouch
(in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Sarah Dekker
(in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Linda Dibb (in
The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Charlie Fairbank (in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Louise Gold
Max Gold
Kay Jones (in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Charlotte Kasoer (in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Maggie Lindsay
(in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Christine Lohr
(in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Rosanna May
(in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Michael McEvoy
(in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Sally Nesbitt
(in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 –
8 February 1985)
Jane Pulford (as Mrs Thatcher in Gulf War, 1991)
Phillippa Richie (in The Storm and/or The Galaxy’s Guide To Survival, 7 – 8 February 1985)
Felicity Steel (in Time Is Running Out, 30 January 1989)
Production Team
Writer, Director, and Producer - Una Brandon-Jones
Director – Felicity
Steel
Note:
On some of the ‘Fall Out Theatre’ credits, Una
Brandon-Jones was credited as Una
Gold.
Tour Dates
The Storm (by Una
Brandon-Jones)
The Galaxy’s Guide To
Survival (a revue)
Richmond
Adult Education College 7 & 8 February 1985 (presented with The Storm),
(directed by Felicity Steel).
Saville
Centre,
Time Is Running Out
Gulf War
Finsbury
Library, Islington (directed by Una Brandon-Jones)
Tour
of
For
a few details about Una
Brandon-Jones & Unity Theatre itself, please click here.
It
might be noted that on at least one occasion (mostly likely around about 1984) Louise
Gold was pressed into giving her services to Fall Out,
because a large number of the cast had gone sick. This was perhaps reminiscent
of the way her indefatigable mother had not infrequently ended up being asked
to perform a song or sketch in Unity’s WWII revues when one or other of
the cast had had to pull out. In fact Louise almost certainly got roped into
appearing with Fall Out precisely because she is her mother’s
daughter; she couldn’t refuse the request.
Having
been roped in herself, Louise Gold may have had a hand in roping Chris
Barrie, a colleague from the political satire TV show Spitting Image, into appearing with the group.
As
professional actors/ voice-artistes, Louise Gold and Chris Barrie
feature on the Spitting Image album Spit
In Your Ear the first Spitting Image single Da Do Run Ron
and a charity LP Utterly
Utterly Live Comic Relief. They also represented Spitting
Image on Comic Relif 1986.
They both spoke about their involvement with Spitting Image on
television on Spitting Image: Must See TV.
During
the 1980s, as well as doing political theatre with Una Brandon-Jones as a member of the Fall Out Theatre group, Felicity
Steel was also performing with Louise
Gold in the alternative cabaret group Anna Rexic
and The Compulsives.
Louise
Gold and Max Gold
went on to appear together, very definitely in their capacity as professional
actors, in Our Country’s Good and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
In
2003, Louise Gold went on to put her connections with the world of
amateur theatre to good use, playing the role of an amateur theatre director in
a sketch in the revue Curtain Up.
Louise Gold subsequently went on to appear in the Lionel Bart musical Oliver!
(Notable given Lionel Bart’s
connections with the world of political theatre in general and Unity Theatre in particular).
Critics Comments
Links about The Fall Out shows
Jane
Pulford’s homepage
(mentions her appearance in Fall Out’s Gulf War show, she refers to the group
as ‘Unity Theatre’: http://www.janepulford.com/
Muppet
Central Interview with Louise Gold (although she doesn’t mention her
contribution to Fall Out, she does mention Unity Theatre, and, Una Brandon-Jones): http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/interviews/gold.shtml
TheatreNow.Com
interview with Louise Gold about Follies (although she doesn’t mention her contribution to Fall
Out, she does mention her connections with the world of Political Theatre): http://www.theatrenow.com/asp/link.htm?news.asp?art=3430&cat=1
A review of Johnny
Johnson (a
Discovering Lost Musicals concert-staging of a forgotten American Group Theatre
piece, nothing to do with Fall Out, but it is a left-wing satire, and
coincidentally the leading man of this staging had previously appeared with the
Fall Out group): http://www.qsulis.demon.co.uk/Reviews/Johnny_Johnson.htm
Agency Licensing Campaign (article in The Stage): http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/31022/theatre-stars-back-campaign-for-talent-agency,
and Online Petition (which anyone
who supports it can sign): http://www.gopetition.com/petition/41085.html , seeing as Jane Pulford is among the
performers backing this worthy campaign.
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