{"id":5788,"date":"2017-11-28T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5788"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:52:34","slug":"horsingtons-champion-coarse-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/?p=5788","title":{"rendered":"Horsington’s champion Coarse Actors*"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The MPO’s Coarse actors at Ealing – Jessie Stones, Oscar Shave, Richard Gaunt, Sukie Read, Gemma Kiddle, Tony White (kneeling), Linda Mumford. Neil Edwards, Neil Harrison, Peter Mumford, Matt Baker and Chris Bailward – on the floor, dead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Milborne Port Opera, Horsington’s favorite local opera company,\u00a0 has just won the World Coarse Acting Championship at the Questors Theatre, Ealing.<\/strong> Featured in the cast was Horsington’s Richard Gaunt, who also directed the play, and Chris Bailward, who played the title role.<\/p>\n

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Chris Bailward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Other cast members will be familiar to the many Horsington regulars who support the company every year.<\/p>\n

The competition took place on Saturday 25th<\/sup> November.<\/p>\n

The award was made to a delighted cast by Timothy West, the chief adjudicator. The MPO team won against competition from 7 other groups, including one professional company. The evening was a hilarious assortment of different acting styles and genres as each act vied with the others to create on-stage mayhem with well-intentioned performances which go awry.<\/p>\n

The MPO\u2019s challenge was to write and produce a spoof 15-minute \u201cCoarse Operetta\u201d in which everything which can, does, go wrong. MPO\u2019s Neil Edwards \u00a0distilled his show \u201cThe Murder at Shakerley House\u201d into the world\u2019s first bite-sized drawing room whodunnit operetta, which the company proceeded to ruin with wrong notes, missed entrances, over (and under) acting and general incompetence. One actor, Tony White, stole the show with his inability to rise from a kneeling position \u2013 he was marooned on stage until the intermission, when he was rescued by the stage manager.<\/p>\n

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Richard Gaunt with Jessie Stones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Richard Gaunt is a veteran \u201cCoarse Actor*\u201d who was in the play which won the first World Coarse Acting Championship back in in 1972.<\/p>\n

The competition was to celebrate the 90th<\/sup> year of author Michael Green, whose hilarious book \u201cThe Art of Coarse Acting\u201d (still in print after 52 years) inspired the genre.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Art of Coarse Acting\u201d inspired three successful Edinburgh Fringe shows (Richard Gaunt appeared in 2 of them), tv spin-offs by Morecambe and Wise and the Two Ronnies and of course \u201cAcorn Antiques\u201d. Lately, \u201cThe play that goes wrong\u201d has been enjoying enormous success in theatres around England, including a successful run at Salisbury.<\/p>\n

*Coarse Acting – A Coarse actor is one who knows the words, but not the order in which they come<\/em> – Michael Green.<\/p>\n

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The Milborne Port Opera, Horsington’s favorite local opera company,\u00a0 has just won the World Coarse Acting Championship at the Questors Theatre, Ealing. Featured in the cast was Horsington’s Richard Gaunt, who also directed the play, and Chris Bailward, who played the title role. Other cast members will be familiar to the many Horsington regulars who … Continue reading “Horsington’s champion Coarse Actors*”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-1vm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5789,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5788\/revisions\/5789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}