Fun and Frocks at Henley Festival

Henley!

We had a jam packed week this week as not only was it the first scratch of our new indoor show, death and gardening, but it was also Time For Teas first trip to The Henley Festival. Mornings and afternoons were spent building a scratch performance in Bracknell and evenings were spent driving over to Henley and going to out to do some shows.

The scratch for Death and Gardening was slightly hindered as we found out a day or two before the show that the set wasn’t ready yet so we had to do some (very) quick re-organising of the scenes we had made and a speedy internet delivery of some fake turf that we could use for our allotments. We also had a bit of time to play around with new bits which was jolly good fun – such as a topless version of Celine Dion’s, ‘My Heart Will Go On’ where we explored all the possible ways we would be able to show a relationship with a rather large marrow!

The scratch was a very good opportunity for us all to try some ideas out in front of a real audience and get some feedback we can carry forward for the next scratch we do. Despite it being in such early stages of its development we had some great feedback and left the audiences wanting to see the rest, which is always a good sign.

Our evenings spent at the ever so decadent Henley Festival were a lovely reward for the manic days we were working with Tom Jones, an ABBA Tribute Group, Alexandra Burke and Jools Holland gracing the stage.

The Tea Ladies were very very popular as we set about giving massages to de-stress the people of the Henley Festival. One women was so convinced by us that she came over with her purse asking to buy 3 Lattes and an Americano…pfffft coffee drinkers! We discovered a new game with the cakes on the inside of our aprons called, ‘What’s your favourite?’, where we hold up our aprons and ask people to pick what they prefer – a little tart, a cream filled gateaux, or chunky chocolate cake. This went down a treat with the men wearing kilts who were only too happy to voluntarily lift their kilts and ask what our favourite was…charming!

If you want to see Viktor take his top off then keep checking our website to see when our next upcoming scratch event for Death and Gardening will be – you don’t want to miss it… believe me!