The Riverbank
Mole – C Howdle
Badger – Miles Gould
Ratty – Hannah Veale
Toad – Dominic Mattos
The Weasels
Chief Weasel – Duncan Coutts
Weasel 1 – James Needham
Weasel 2 – Phil Scott
The Town
Barge Woman – Sally Close
Augustus/Engine Driver – Louise Sherlock
Behind the Scenes
Executive Producer – Benjamin Parker
Producer – Gill Conquest
The Details…(in alphabetical order)
Sally’s valiant attempts to spend all her time at university making pantomime animals were tarnished by her tutors’ insistence on talking to her about physics. Highlights of her dramatic career have included furniture mover in the primary school nativity play and four roles playing the back end of various quadrupeds.
Gill is a second year social anthropologist who first stumbled across the gin-fuelled world of Light Entertainment whilst attempting to join the Model United Nations. However although her innocent young ideas about doing something important and political were thwarted, her thirst for power was not quenched and she has risen through the ranks to become Secretary, and now co-President of CULES. Producing for Two Shades is, of course, the next step in her plans for world domination. First Edinburgh, then the Universe!!!! Mwa ha ha ha ha!!!!!
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Duncan is one of the oldest surviving members of OULES who joined back in the good old days when acting talent was optional. This is his second appearance at the Fringe and he’s glad to be back as another thoroughly nasty character. In his spare time between plays he is studying for a PhD in computer science.
Miles left Oxford in 2003, tried the 9-to-5 for a year, then settled with a huge sigh of relief into the most abstract pure maths PhD he could find. In his four previous shows at the Fringe, he has been shot, beaten up, stabbed (twice), poisoned, attacked by vampires, sent to the gulags, and forced to stake his fiancee through the heart. He is extremely worried by the current TB epidemic among badgers.
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Despite a professed intention to spend her student lifetime studying for her law degree, an evil fairy enticed Cath into the gin-quaffing, pun-making, punt-lazing world of OULES after only three days at Oxford. Although Cath nobly struggled to break free through some serious drama, OULES overcame her in the end by making her their president. She has so far directed several plays, acted badly and done every job in the average theatre,thankfully not all at once. She also contributes the occasional bad pun to a script, and is looking forward to reprising the role of the Mole for the third time – and maybe this time she will have learned her lines…!
Ben’s given himself the title of Executive Producer so he can pretend to still be involved whilst doing as little as possible. He’s delighted to be going back to Edinburgh for the third time, and what a treat this year promises to be. Lovely plays and Lovely People: Two Shows, Two Sensations, Two Shades of Blue.
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This is Louise’s first visit to the Fringe. She joined OULES in her first year at Oxford and made a bad attempt at acting in every play since then. Despite these distractions and pretending to be busy in the role of OULES secretary, she completed a biology degree and is now excelling as an unemployed graduate.
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