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Original Music & Lyrics by Jaques Brel with Gerard Jouannest English Lyrics by Eric Blau with Mort Schuman

Production devised by Bruce Murray

Music arranged and directed by Lynn Jenner

Performances: Sat 26th& Sun 27th May 1979, Prompt Corner

Introduction

A production featuring 24 songs 23 sung by the cast and one recording played of Jaques Brel (Ne Me Quitte Pas) with accomplianing projections.

Cast

• Singer 1 - Ginny Jones
• Singer 2 - Sally Lill
• Singer 3 - Ann Mattey
• Singer 4 - Bruce Murray

Crew

• Stage Manager - Jenny Turner
• Assisted by - Mark Whitwell
• Visuals Designed by - Geof Goode
• Lighting Design - Peter Boone
• Assisted by - Ann King
• Sound Engineered by - Brian Fretwell
• Photographs and Projections by - Geof Goode
• Assisted by - Trudi Ainley
• Costumes - Jeanette Hoile

Reviews

...Last weekend the Prompt Corner paid him (Jaques Brel) tribute in a non-stop celebration lasting almost 90 minutes and summing up the man and his life.

There were four performers: Bruce Murray, Ann Mattey, Sally Lill and Ginny Jones. One male and three females sounds like an imbalance, but the power and intesity of the male in question soon silenced and doubts we may have had on that score. Intimations of approaching death were searingly presented by Ann Mattey and Ginny Jones.......Bruce Murry spat out the concentrated bitter irony of "Next".

Of all the two dozen songs, my own favourite was the humourous "Timid Freda" as conveyed by Sally Lill, came over with almost Mephistophelian mockery. Near the end Ann Mattey magnificently realised the horror of "Carousel". One more feather in Prompt Corner's cap

Don Madgwick, reprinted in extract form, in Scene from The Croydon Advertiser by permission.

Gallery

• Production photos
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  Sally Lill Timid Freda

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  Sally Lill, Bruce Murray, Ann Mattey, Ginny Jones

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  Bruce Murray The Port of Amsterdam

Photos: Brian Fretwell

Reminiscences and Anecdotes

I'm sure this show was presented 4 times over the 2 eveings, but can find no written record of this. It was repeated over with a slightly different cast in 1980 the the Bell Theatre and this version played 4 evenings in the Studio Theatre of The Questors Theatre, Ealing.

See Also

Sing Brel 1980 Main Stage

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References

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External Links

• This play on the web