Re-Inventing the Cheese
And
Empowering the Cheese

Re-Inventing the Cheese, after its Brighton Festival success, played out to full houses in June at the Marlborough Theatre Brighton. The show has since played at the Brighton and Edinburgh Festivals and was commissioned for a very successful performance in Denmark in January 2006. This year,
Empowering the Cheese premiered at the 2006 Brighton Festival at the Sussex Arts Club, Brighton, UK.

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Our most recent performance of Empowering the Cheese was at Pelham House, Lewes, East Sussex, UK on Sunday 8th October at 7.30pm. A sell out! Details here.

The show will toured it 2006/7. It is still available for booking.

“Congratulations again on Reinventing the Cheese: it was all entertaining and thought-provoking, ... so beautifully subtle, and so rich in messages that it shone out. Great stuff!”
Lindsay Wittenberg

“One moment hilarious, the next shockingly serious, this show is a challenging collage of scenes from the world of work..”

“an exhilarating, crazy road trip without the car...but plenty of cheese!”

“This highly original show deals with a subject not often explored in the theatre - the tragedy and comedy of work.”

Re-Inventing the Cheese is a celebration of our theatre work in venues outside traditional theatres. We take the world of work and organisations as our audience and our inspiration. Re-Inventing the Cheese is a showcase, a sharing of that work in a more traditional theatre setting. Glimpses of a world that many of us give over fifty hours per week of our lives to – that’s about 90,000 hours in a typical lifetime. The dreams, the frustrations, the conflicts, the joys. The world of work.

Re-Inventing the Cheese and Empowering the Cheese
Written by Paul Levy
Directed by Paul Levy and Chris Stagg

More details here

Download the flyer (virus checked jpeg) here

The Cheese Hall of Fine Talent

Over the many incarnations of the “Cheese” show Rational Madness has been proud to be associated with a developing pool of fine actors.

Each brings their own unique talents and abilities to the show.

Colette Starr performed in our Brighton and Edinburgh performances at Komedia Roman Eagle Lodge and The Fringe Basement in Brighton in 2005. Her naturalistic style was just what we needed for a show that received great feedback both in Edinburgh and Brighton.

David Mounfield, a regular on Sky TV and Radio 4’s Count Arthur Strong, brought his excellent character comedy skills to our performance in 2005 at the Corn Exchange in Brighton

Melanie Page starred in the short piece “Colluding with Coffee” as part of our new Empowering the Cheese at the Sussex Arts Club in Brighton 2006 as part of the Critical Incident.

Augustine Flint-Hartle, star of the acclaimed Bite-Size, toured with us throughout 2005 and 2006 and played numerous roles, traveling with us to our performance in Denmark 2005.

Owen Aaronovitch was part of our award-winning work in 2003-4 with Eurotunnel and was part of the pioneering early work of the Cheese show. Owen is also best known for his starring role in TV’s Coronation Street

Carol Brailsford, star of Komedia’s award-winning Treason Show, was a star of our Re-Engineering the Cheese performances at Kimedia Brighton in 2003

Sophie Pedlow starred in Re-Inventing the Cheese at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton during 2004

Zara Plessard, who recently shot to fame in the acclaimed tour of Horrible Histories, starred in our performances of Re-Inventing the Cheese at many venues in 2004-5