RVT/GMFA Sports Day. A big thank you for all involved.

The RVT wishes to thank all our customers, Sports day competitors, stewards and staff for the most exciting RVT/GMFA Sports day ever. The sum raised for charity is going to be truly incredible. Once all the monies have been collected, we will immediately let you know the amount. Again thank you all for you support.

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Hilda Eusébio

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Hilda Eusébio is a performance artist who devises and performs for the theatre, cabaret and queer scenes. She is best known for her hard-hitting, humourous one-woman shows ('Jack: Evolution of a Drag King' and 'Ego-Cum-Love') that have been taking venues by storm and generating interest from all walks of life. Fusing comedy with live performance essay, Hilda's work can be shocking, funny, occasionally offensive but always well-intentioned.

Born and raised in Toronto, she decided to pursue her love of absurdist and physical theatre and moved to her family's native Portugal. In Lisbon, she spent most of her time in her room but would occasionally brave the outside world to catch a bus and rehearse with Ávila Costa's notoriously surreal and highly acclaimed GTL Theatre Company. She subsequently joined João Meireles and Mário Trigo to found Focus Theatre Company and co-starred in their début production, Almada Negreiro’s 'The Myth of Psyche'.

Struggling to find a cure for her depression, Hilda decided to move to London, find a man, get married and have children. Naturally, she came out, instead.

With this new identity came a new way of performing. She became a deviser/performer for the award-winning Mapping4D ('Little English', 'Vertigo', 'The Pink Bits' and 'Slender') and teamed up with Mimi Beaufort to create queerlesque acts ('The Tale of Dr. Ludvig von Kastratoff and The Sex Creature Supreme' and 'Dallas: The Censored Episode'). She then proceeded to purchase a three-piece suit.

Creating an alter-ego known only as Jack, Hilda devised live at Tim Redfern's Pas de Piaf Cabaret and Bar Wotever to create her politically charged, drag king comedy show 'Jack: Evolution of a Drag King'. Not the comedy scene’s traditional show, insidecomedy.com described ‘Evolution of a Drag King’ as ‘grab(bing) the audience by the scruff of the neck and sh(aking) it wildly…a highly charged set …polished…funny… aggressive and shocking’. (insidecomedy.com) Jack has performed for Shunt, Duckie, Transfabulous, BFI's Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Bar Wotever and the RVT's Hot August Fringe.

Her new one-woman show, ‘Ego-Cum-Love’, has been applauded in venues in Brighton and London and is back by popular demand. Examining society's addiction to power and hierarchy in the context of Britain today, Hilda uses her trademark combinination of dark comedy, sharp commentary and stark vulnerability to leave audiences both entertained and moved.

Hilda has dragged it up and queered it out for Duckie's Gay Shame, Wotever World's Modern Music Hall, The Modern Times Club, Whoopee! Club, Glam Slam, Stranger than Paradise, Cochrane Confidential, the ICA, Bristol's The Big Tease, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Café Royale, The Cobden Club, The Bethnal Green Working Men's Club and more.

Hilda has never been happier. Her one remaining dream is to find true success as a reincarnation of James Spader's and Barry Manilow's love child.  

LA JOHN JOSEPH

La John Joseph shares his indescretions during his formative years in glamorous Liverpool council estates. Read more →

A frank, and almost charming tour of La JohnJoseph's formative years on Liverpool's most glamorous council estates. Indiscrete storytelling interspersed with reworked classics from Suede, Hole and PJ Harvey, delivered in her wild and witty signature style.

ALAN A.
World of Alan A
How do you like it? Alan A. is a French gay singer and songwriter who produces an interesting blend of sexually explorative, witty, yet sharp-edged pop music. Originally from France, he moved to London in 2004, and traveled to New York and Montréal to record his first e.p. Ambiguity, but he came back to London last year to work on the promotion of his music, and start performing.  Read more →

Read more.........How do you like it? Sweet and romantic? Or cheeky and sleazy? Either way, Alan A. offers the whole package! His provocative and amusing performance based on the cocky first Album Ambiguity will entertain you and stick… in your mind!

Apart from a few small venues mostly in France, RVT: Hot August Fringe would be Alan A.’s first real show in the UK.

Amber Taylor-Groves and Ed Cox
Heads.Hearts Myspace
“A stripped-down funk adventure with tinges of electro – very fresh. We predict their music will come thundering onto your dance floors. Watch this space.” - QX Magazine - YOUNG, FRESH AND NEW Read more →

When Amber Taylor-Groves and Ed Cox formed Heads.Hearts, they had no idea how the music would come out. Amber had always sung soul. Ed had always written pop songs and loved synths. The resulting sound was a mix of all three. The live, raw vocal you get with a band, the edge and energy of dance music and the catchy hooks of pop music.

Like Metronomy or Basement Jaxx, it’s a sound that’s just at home in indie clubs and as it is on dancefloors. And it took 8 months of solid writing and recording in Ed’s studio to get it right.

Amber sung in her pyjamas until the wee hours in Ed’s wardrobe for the perfect sound and Ed came up with song after song, switching from keyboards - which he’s played since he was 6 – to drum machines, sequencers, guitars, bass and even the harmonica to get the right feel.

The fuzzed-up bass lines and guitars sit with fresh sharp synthesisers, samplers, electronic drums and of course, Amber’s soulful voice. Coupled with ambiguous lyrics – some hopeful and some dark – the result is an honest, darker and dirtier take on electronic music. More heartfelt and real than the current trend for sparkly disposable 80’s influenced synth-pop.

The emotion in Amber’s voice has the ability to make venues fall silent. But the band’s song writing and versatility is just as much of a strength. They switch from stripped-down acoustic songs that give Amber’s voice room to soar straight into hard-hitting floor-filling dance tunes. Like Groove Armada (who Ed played session keys for on Soundboy Rock) Heads.Hearts can do downbeat and up-tempo. And you’ll come away remembering the songs.

The Water Rats gave Heads.Hearts a headline slot on only their 5th show after their site got an unusually high number of hits. They sent tracks into gay weekly QX Magazine and were immediately featured in the Young Fresh & New section. Music Medication marked them as ones to watch in the coming year. And there’s still so much more to come.

Amy Lamé
Amy Lamé Dot Com
Amy Lame is a writer, presenter, producer and performer. A multi-talented, muliti-media, multi-award winning wunderkid originally from New Jersey, Amy has been a Londoner for 15 years. Read more →
and second banana... David Mills!

David Mills is a comic, singer and raconteur.  Read more →
Andi Osho
AndiOsho.co.uk
Andi Osho headshotSince her acting debut in 2003, Andi has appeared at several renowned venues such as at The Kings Head, Riverside Studios, Theatre Royal, Bath and Liverpool Everyman. 2005 saw a “powerful” performance as she took on the titular role in Medea and again as sexy jazz singer, Dolly Rathebe in Who Killed Mr Drum?.  Read more →

Andi ended the year with a No.1 tour of Dael Orlandersmith’s Pulitzer Prize nominated play, Yellowman, receiving rave reviews throughout its eight week run. Andi’s TV work includes high-end BBC dramas such as Sea Of Souls and Waking The Dead as well as more popular serials such as Casualty, Eastenders and Footballers Wives.

In a short space of time, Andi has made a big impression on the comedy circuit, reaching the final of five major new talent competitions (Nivea Funny Women, Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, Hackney Empire New Act of the Year, Laughing Horse New Act Competition and Amused Moose Laugh Off). After four months and just 40 gigs she won The Nivea Funny Women Award.

Since then, she has gone from strength to strength performing at top comedy venues including The Comedy Store, The Comedy Café, The Pleasance Dome, Jongleurs and The Hackney Empire and appeared on TV Comedy Shows such as Russell Brand and Friends, Comedy Lab and FAQ U.

Andi’s most recent work, The Andi O-Show, a sketch show pilot aired on E4 in August 08. She is also developing sitcom, CSI:Nigeria with writing partner, Israel Oyelumade.

Andi has been a major contributor in several devised theatre pieces including Qabuka (a study on Zimbabwean refugees) and Ten Suitcases and The Tunnel for innovative children’s theatre company, Kazzum. In 2003 she co-devised C Theatre’s popular franchise, Shakespeare For Breakfast for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Andi has writing three full-length plays and received special commendation for her piece, The Thirteenth Bar from the Verity Bargate Award (Soho Theatre).

In 2006 she was short-listed to be a writer-in-residence for Parliament’s Commemoration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

In June 2008 Andi premiered her collaborative World War Two piece, Up The Café De Paris at the Pulse Festival in Ipswich with her innovative theatre company, Three Beyond The Sea.

Andi is a founder member of new writing group, Scriptonite and an associate artist at the Playground Studio.

Andi is also a contributor on non-fiction programming and has appeared in several broken comedy projects including Channel 4’s FAQ U as a panellist, More4’s The Last Word as a reporter and as a “talking head” on Most Annoying People… and Most Annoying Couples… In addition, she has presented several prestigious corporate projects for various clients, among them, advertising agency JWT.

Most recently, Andi co-presented Channel 4’s new talent initiative Tonightly with Jason Manford, a daily late night comedy show with guests, sketches and interviews.

ANDREW CLOVER
www.andrewclover.com
Andrew is an extremely versatile writer and has done well at writing naturalistic sit-com, fantasy sit-com, hard-hitting action films, moving bio-pictures, coming-of-age dramas, game shows, panel shows, live comedy, fantasy novels and children's cartoons. He continues to perform regularly on the stand up circuit and is constantly developing new ideas. “THE SHOW, THE FRINGE AND THE UNIVERSE SEEM TO HANG ON EVERY NEXT BREATH.” The Sunday Herald “A WILD MAN OF COMEDY WITH A TRULY STUNNING RANGE OF SKILLS” Time Out "CHARACTER COMEDY AND IMPROVISED STAND-UP… INSPIRED” The List “MY FAVOURITE ACT ON THE FRINGE” Ronnie Corbett (The Edinburgh Show) "DESTINED FOR CERTAIN STARDOM “ Daily Telegraph  Read more →

Perrier Nominee, actor and writer of the Sunday Times column Dad Rules in a show about learning the rules of love. What makes us fall in love? What makes us break up? How can we stay in love? An uplifting, hilarious hour of stand-up, stories, and, finally, the Seven Secrets of Love.

ANDREW PEPPER

PEPPER TIME. ANDREW PEPPER STRUTS BACK INTO VAUXHALL WITH SONGS BY BREL AND EBB AND KANDER. Read more →

"Angular, fast-talking British eccentricity at it glorious best."
Fresh from recent success at Pizza on the Park cabaret svelte Andrew Pepper sashays, struts and sizzles back into Vauxhall, providing purple hat choreography; songs by Aznavour, Brel and Kander and Ebb; lashings of joy; and those legs!

As a cabaret performer Andrew Pepper has appeared in numerous London venues including Pizza on the Park, Leicester Square Theatre Basement, Soho Revue Bar, Cellar Door and Turnmills. He recently made his European cabaret debut, performing PEPPER TIME at the English Theatre, Frankfurt. As an actor he has appeared in the West End production of Mary Poppins; played Rupert Macabre in BBC's Spook Squad; and created the role of the Scarecrow in the world premiere of Philip Pullman's The Scarecrow and his Servant at the Southwark Playhouse.

Ava Vidal
Comedy CV
Ava Vidal is a British comedienne, who became well known after taking part in E4's "Kings of Comedy". Her career in comedy began on the BBC's "Urban Sketch Show".  Read more →

Vidal states on her MySpace page that she has done, "A couple of Top 100 shows where people like me who have achieved nothing get to comment on more successful people that have made a few mistakes". She appeared in "28 Acts in 28 Minutes" and "The Comic Side of 7 Days" in 2005. Vidal has also been involved in other BBC shows including The last laugh, The sack race, and The Crouches. She was a housemate in Kings of Comedy on E4, and Channel 4 made a documentary about her called "From the Top", a half-hour show explaining her journey in comedy so far, and how she became a comedienne. She has also appeared on Comedy Central's The World Stands Up and The Comedystore TV show's. She will also appear on the next series of Edinburgh and Beyond on the same channel. Most recently, Ava Vidal was in the line-up on "Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow" in Swansea, aired Saturday 27th June.

 


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