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The Soloist
I was a jeweller for a very long time but then I got terribly bored. Twenty years ago,I got this opportunity for a solo performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. That first performance made me realise I could do it professionally. I was in my 40s when I joined theatre,a mid-life crisis,I call it. Ive been doing this for 18 years now and its been a dream. It sounds clichéd but I am living a dream.
On playing powerful figures from history and literature
When you start off with no training and theatre background,nobody will give you an interview or an audition. So I tried to make it work myself. I depict prominent figures in life and literature. There are more than two dimensions to their personality and I think about these aspects a lot. This is what fascinates me. Moreover,if I did a solo called Pip,no one would want to watch it.
On Adolf,his longest running show
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FROME based playwright and solo performing actor, Pip Utton, will perform his play ‘A Christmas Carol’ , becoming that master of literary story- telling, Charles Dickens.
The performance will be held at new performance venue, Marston Music, on Wednesday 15th December.
The venue says, “This will be an evening getting to know the man behind the myth. The man proclaiming the virtues of a steady domestic life at the same time as he leaves his wife for a younger woman; a man both fascinated by death and terrified by it; a man who above all needs to entertain, whatever the physical cost to himself.
“You will not only enjoy another of Pip&#;s incredible impersonations of famous characters but, having heard some of the finest of Dickens&#; writing, you will come away feeling that you have spent time with the great writer himself.
“Those who have seen Pip’s amazing one man appearances in Frome&#;s Merlin Theatre or Theatre Royal, Bath, or maybe at the Edinburgh Festival or throughout E
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Pip Utton: Churchill
"All men are worms. I believe I am a glow worm!"
Big Ben chimes and strikes 13; a magical time when once a year for just over an hour the statues of the great statesmen in Parliament Square, London, England, come alive again. Winston Churchill descends from his plinth to indulge himself in three of his greatest pleasures: a glass of Scotch, a cigar, and listening to himself talk.
He talks of his childhood, his parents, his education, his army life, his marriage, his painting, writing and bricklaying and, of course, he talks of his many years at the centre of the world political scen, especially during two world wars.
Pip Utton's play is not an attempt to decide on Churchill's greatness. It is not an attempt to judge. It is just 70 minutes spent in the entertaining company of the man whose life spanned two centuries and saw the decline of the British Empire. The man who spent 50 years at the heart of political life in Westminster. The man who held most of t