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Topless
Sandie is your tour guide for a fabulous tour of London on an open top sightseeing bus. She can't wait to point out all the sights from Big Ben to the Tower of London and tell you all about their history. Unfortunately that's not all that she wants to talk about. Nearly every sight along the way seems to trigger off some hilarious memory to do with her "gorgeous Duncan, who's the spitting image of Mel Gibson". Domestic problems and sightseeing become entwined as Sandie reveals how she deals with her straying husband in this punchy, heartfelt comedy that takes you on an extraordinary journey through the streets of London. Topless is a one woman monologue stage comedy ideally suited for both amateur and professional productions. It can also be used as an audition piece.
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80 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1986
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About the author
Miles Tredinnick
8 booksMiles Tredinnick's stage plays include Twist, It’s Now or Never!, Laugh? I Nearly Went to Miami!, and the four one-act Topless plays set on open-top sightseeing buses in London, Philadelphia, Sydney, and Las Vegas. For BBC1 TV, he created and wrote the comedy series Wyatt's Watchdogs and was a writer on the show Birds of a Feather. In addition he wrote stage and television material for Frankie Howerd including the Channel 4 TV special Superfrank and the stage comedy Up Pompeii. Fripp is his first novel. He is also the lead singer Riff Regan in the English punk band London. His debut solo album Milestones was released in 2015. More info at www.MilesTredinnick.com
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April 24, 2021
‘Carry On’ humour and nostalgia.
I never saw the Frankie Howerd original series, sadly, but the style, the board and dirty humour, the theatre approach, it's both familiar and my sort of thing.
To listen to an homage, 50 years later, well, it felt like I could have been in the audience at the time. There may be references to texting and modern new-fangled technology, but I don't think the jokes have changed.
In fact, I'm pretty sure they were almost all recycled from their predecessors.
In Pompei, we are taken through a sex-crazed world of love affairs and subterfuge, of leering, lust and legs. By the Howerd-like narrator, Lurcio, who gets embroiled in his master's liaisons, and those of everyone else with too much time (and too many hormones) on their hands. Now is that their temperature rising, of that of the nearby volcano?
Loved listening to this, I felt nostalgic for a time I never lived through. I especially loved the moments of ad lib when actors forgot or missed lines and the cast has to compensate. But the whole thing is funny, from the Life of Brian-like names (Voluptua, Erotica) to the over-the-top lasciviousness and antiquated sexual attitudes.
Much fun. Not to be taken seriously. Or as historical fact.
With thanks to Nudge books for providing a sample Audible copy.
I never saw the Frankie Howerd original series, sadly, but the style, the board and dirty humour, the theatre approach, it's both familiar and my sort of thing.
To listen to an homage, 50 years later, well, it felt like I could have been in the audience at the time. There may be references to texting and modern new-fangled technology, but I don't think the jokes have changed.
In fact, I'm pretty sure they were almost all recycled from their predecessors.
In Pompei, we are taken through a sex-crazed world of love affairs and subterfuge, of leering, lust and legs. By the Howerd-like narrator, Lurcio, who gets embroiled in his master's liaisons, and those of everyone else with too much time (and too many hormones) on their hands. Now is that their temperature rising, of that of the nearby volcano?
Loved listening to this, I felt nostalgic for a time I never lived through. I especially loved the moments of ad lib when actors forgot or missed lines and the cast has to compensate. But the whole thing is funny, from the Life of Brian-like names (Voluptua, Erotica) to the over-the-top lasciviousness and antiquated sexual attitudes.
Much fun. Not to be taken seriously. Or as historical fact.
With thanks to Nudge books for providing a sample Audible copy.
May 31, 2015
The difference between innuendo and smut is a very fine line. The original TV series and film of Up Pompeii knew where that line was and managed to keep on the correct side of it. Most of the time this play doesn't.
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