Seven Studies in Salesmanship

Yes! It’s that time once more when we sully these once-hallowed pages by shamelessly plugging one of our own shows. But this week’s offering is something really very special indeed – a preview, no less, of a brand new production by the multi-award-winning company The Foundry Group. We’d simply hate you to miss out on what promises to be one of the very best nights out you will ever enjoy. But if you’re still not convinced, here are five reasons that might sway you:

1) It’s a snip at a mere £5.

2) It stars key members of the highly gifted, very popular comedy troupe ‘Radio City Theatre’ – Victoria Gould, Marcus Hutton, Dermot Keaney and Emma Kilbey.

3) Amongst many notable roles, including Gared in Game of Thrones, Dermot was also that bloke with the beard and top hat in the ‘Lympics opening ceremony, and if you ask him nicely after the show he might do them dance moves and makes some giant chimneys shoot up out the earth.

4) Although a sequence of seven short plays on the theme of salesmanship and how it pervades human relations, it is actually very funny.

5) It says here that it is written by the critically-acclaimed writing duo Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon….Ooh – that’s us!

This preview performance of Seven Studies In Salesmanship plays All Saints Church Hall, corner of Eaton Road and The Drive, Hove, BN3 3QE, Sunday 3rd March, 7.30pm (ends 9.15pm). Doors open 7pm.

To purchase tickets or for more information please visit www.foundrygroup.co.uk

In&Out

In
• Jeff Green
• Terry Alderton
• Mandy Knight
• Phil Kaye

Out
• Charlie Chuck
• Donna MacPhail
• Bob Downe
• Bruce Morton
• Rhona Cameron

What we used to say
An occasional series in which we struggle to remember the original, simple, once common terms that have been abandoned in favour of overblown, crass, managerial tommyrot.

WHAT WE SAY NOW:
“Transition”

Yet another hideously ugly, gratuitous use of a noun as a verb, heard on “The Today Programme” shortly after a piece about Orwell Day. Oh the irony. “Of course there will be some difficult decisions as we transition to the new, slimmed-down, more efficient armed forces.”

WHAT WE USED TO SAY: “ Move, pass, change, shift.”