PRESS RELEASE FOR

 MICKY SALBERG’S CRYSTAL BALLROOM

DANCE BAND

At The Marine Theatre on Friday 9 May at 8pm

Tickets Lyme Tourist Information Centre 01297 442138

£10.00 Concs £8.00

The national press cover Ade Morris’s plays at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury and his latest – “Micky Salberg’s Crystal Ballroom Dance Band” has attracted rave reviews. “It possesses an honesty and humour other playwrights would do well to emulate” said the Daily Telegraph and Theatre World Review wrote “This is a feel-good show where the audience won’t leave until they’ve had at least one encore. Ade Morris knows how to tell a tale, and tell it well.”  This new show, which tours to over 20 venues following a run at The Watermill, comes to The Marine Theatre on Friday 9 May at 8pm for one performance only, tickets from Lyme’s Tourist Information centre  on 01297 442138 are £10.00 or £8.00 for concessions.

This is the first time that The Watermill has taken an actor-musician show out on the road. Audiences can expect plenty of fabulous live music in MICKY SALBERG’S CRYSTAL BALLROOM DANCE BAND as the actors in the production will play musical instruments whilst in character.  This type of show which has won numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic for The Watermill, appeals to everyone regardless of gender or age.  Ade Morris’ plays, from The Watermill in Newbury, are a widely anticipated feature of the rural touring circuit. MICKY SALBERG’S CRYSTAL BALLROOM DANCE BAND follows hot on the heels of his heart-warming comedies THE STORY OF A GREAT LADY and GIGOLO both of which were revived for a second run and tour.  

It’s a tough life on the farm, and the late 50’s are no exception.  With bailiffs expected at any moment the feisty no-nonsense Sam is trying to save her father’s farm.  With little prospect of earning money from the land they decide to form a Ballroom Dance Band, with just two members.  Enter the ever confident guitar wielding Tommy.  He fervently believes that rock and roll is the way forward but Micky is unconvinced.  And Sam?  Well she just hates Tommy.  The conflict of musical styles and relationships brings surprising revelations and new challenges to them all.

Ade’s new musical comedy, examining the moment big band music met rock and roll, will feature Paul Kissaun as Micky. Paul is a talented singer as well as actor and was a member of The Flying Pickets appearing alongside such luminaries as Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Nina Simone, Blur, The Pretenders, Art Garfunkle, The Gypsy Kings and Joan Baez. Alex Tomkins as Tommy and Pam Jolley as Sam. The Stage, the actors own newspaper wrote of her, “Pam Jolley gives a strong performance as the formidable Samuella Salberg, protecting herself with a hard-nosed anger against the world and clashing in a love-hate relationship with the wide-eyed youth whose optimism for the future is unrelenting.”

The Watermill in Newbury is one of the jewels in the crown of British theatre.  It is a producing theatre which in the last ten years has seen many of its shows transferred to London’s West End and one to Broadway in New York.

Sponsored by Fuller’s Brewery, tour supported by CHK Charities.