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Otto Personal Management Ltd Hagglers Corner, 586 Queens Road Sheffield, S2 4DU Tel: 0114 237 2432 Mob: 07587133212 Website: www.ottopm.co.uk E-mail: [email protected] 20/5/2016 Spotlight: TBC Height 5’ 6” Accents: RP, Border Scots (native), Most Scots, Hair Mid Brown Yorkshire, Lancashire, American (East Coast) Eyes Blue/Grey Music: Mezzo soprano with belt Playing Age 40s-50s Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama (1978-81) Traverse Theatre THE CASE OF DAVID ANDERSON, QC Various Chris Parr Palace Theatre, Westcliff AND THEN THERE WERE NONE Vera Claythorne Charles Sharman Cox Palace Theatre, Westcliff SEPARATE TABLES Jean Tanner Christopher Dunham Royal Lyceum Theatre (tour) THE MASTER BUILDER U/S Female Roles Brian Cox/John Crowley Maenad Theatre Co. LOVE & CAPPUCCINO Carla Sophia Young Rideout Theatre Co. (tour) THE CARLIN MOTH The Lass Anne Plenderleith Theatre Alba THE PRINCESS & THE PUDDOCK Princess Nance Charles Nowosielski Palace Theatre, Westcliff (TIE) THE LEGEND OF THE TIGER Ying T’ai Jeremy Bell Palace Theatre, Westcliff (TIE) THE SELFISH GIANT Narrator Jeremy Bell Adam Smith, Kircaldy ALADDIN So Shy Chris Potter Pavillion Theatre, Glasgow CINDERELLA Fairy Godmother John Murtagh Kings Theatre, Glasgow ALADDIN Slave of the Ring Stanley Baxter Kings Theatre, Glasgow CINDERELLA Chorus (u/s Cinders) Rikki Fulton Kings Theatre, Glasgow SINBAD THE SAILOR Chorus (u/s Sultana) Rhona Cleland Kings Theatre, Glasgow BABES IN THE WOOD Chorus Malcolm Goddard BBC THE HIGH LIFE Pam Angela de Chastelai-Smith STV TAGGART - DEAD RINGERS Carol Laurence Moody Euston Films CAPITAL CITY Nurse Mike Vardy BBC STRATHBLAIR II Chrissie Haldane Duncan STV READY OR NOT Jill Leonard White Channel 4 SIX OF HEARTS The Maid Paul Omalond BBC (Schools) SEE YOU, SEE ME Teacher Fiona MacLellan STV NORTHERN LIGHTS Mime Troupe Mike Vardy BBC Radio THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES Elise Patrick Rayner BBC Radio PRINCE DUMBLE & THE DRAGON Princess John Taylor BBC Radio SCOTTISH POETRY Presenter John Taylor BBC Radio FRINGE BENEFITS Various David Johnson BBC Radio CASTLES IN SPAIN Norah Patrick Rayner BBC Radio THE PEGGERS & CREELERS Sarah Hamish Wilson Radio Clyde A FUGITIVE DAY The Girl Finlay Welsh BBC Radio KINGDOM OF THE WIND Katerina Patrick Rayner BBC Radio PIECE BY PIECE Chrissie Hamish Wilson BBC Radio WINNEBAGO Various Patrick Rayner BBC Radio RUNNING BEFORE THE WIND Isabella Hamish Wilson Corporate & Training Films • Full driving Licence • Children’s Theatre • Storytelling • Improvisation • Computing • Pilates • Coastal Rowing.

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OpenLearn Works Unit 13: Storytelling, comedy and popular culture by Donald Smith Copyright © 2019 The Open University 2 of 30 http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2705 Thursday 9 January 2020 Contents Introduction 4 13. Introductory handsel 5 13.1 The resilience of oral storytelling 8 13.2 Humorous folk tales in Scots 13 13.3. Music halls and the dominance of English 17 13.4 From Leonard to Bissett 21 13.5 What I have learned 28 Further Research 29 References 29 Acknowledgements 29 3 of 30 http://www.open.edu/openlearncreate/course/view.php?id=2705 Thursday 9 January 2020 Introduction Introduction Storytelling belongs first of all to an oral culture, which is not written down, remaining fluid, and relatively uncontrolled. When something is written down in a manuscript or a book, there is a standard against which other versions can be compared or corrected. Since the emergence of writing, political, social and religious institutions have privileged written records over oral memory and tradition. This has had a huge influence on the survival and evolution of the Scots language. Having lost its role as a contemporary written language in the 17th century, Scots continued to thrive as a spoken tung. This led to Scots often being associated with aspects of culture that were not sanctioned by authority, or explicitly dissident. To gie tung or ‘raise your voice’ could be seen as anti-authority, an expression of cultural resistance and human freedom. Consequently, people were told to curb or haud their tungs. And the forms of punishment administered by local courts included restraining the tongue, as for example with a Scold’s Bridle.
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Scotland Still a Hostile Home? ‘SEXMAS’ PLAN SLAMMED Leading Scottish Catholics Back Peter Kearney’S Recent Comments on Sectarianism
SUBSCRIBE TO YOUR ONLY NATIONAL CATHOLIC NEWSPAPER SEE PAGE 24 FOR DETAILS No 5289 SCIAF’S HIV/AIDS awareness campaign Page Charity makes the cause a focus of its Christmas fundraising drive 2 No 5393 www.scottishcatholicobserver.org.uk Friday December 3 2010 | 90p Scotland still a hostile home? ‘SEXMAS’ PLAN SLAMMED I Leading Scottish Catholics back Peter Kearney’s recent comments on sectarianism By Ian Dunn LEADING Scottish Catholics have backed a Church spokesman’s claim that there is a ‘vicious’ hos- tility to Catholics in Scotland. Peter Kearney, media spokesman for the Catholic Church in Scotland, has been widely lauded for penning a newspaper article in response to the recent furore following allegations of the sending of e-mails within the CHURCH SPOKESMAN Scottish Football Association that mocked Pope Benedict XVI. calls on Scottish Mr Kearney said the reaction to his Government to request for an SFA investigation had reconsider its 2010 revealed the ‘deep and wide layer of anti- Catholicism’ that exists in Scotland. Christmas sexual Composer James MacMillan and health campaign Michael McGrath, the head of the Scottish Catholic Education Service, Page 3 are among those who have followed Mr Kearney’s lead in expressing their disgust at the anti-Catholicism in PRO-LIFE WAR Scotland today, as has a senior member of the Church of Scotland. CHURCH EXPERT The flashpoint warns against Mr Kearney originally wrote to the SFA calling for ‘urgency and trans- complacency even as parency’ in investigating Hugh Dallas, assisted suicide bill the head of referee development in Scotland, who allegedly forwarded on Fresh comments by Peter Kearney (above), ago in reference to sectarianism, said Catholic songs they received derisory looks set to fail an offensive e-mail about Pope director of the Scottish Catholic Media Office, the ‘level headed, moderate’ article fines because UEFA said Scotland is an Benedict on the day of the Papal visit on the issue of sectarianism have received deserved praise unlike the work of anti-Catholic nation and it would be Page 6 to Scotland.
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Panto in Scotland
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