Happy Christmas and a Merry 2015!

Thank you for all your encouragement and support this year. We've had a wonderful time getting out and about the country, and they say the Tour de France will never be the same after our intervention....

You may or may not be glad to hear that we're already hard at it writing lots of new material for 2015. And, oh look! We've found a few clever little Gadget thingys to add over on the right below our Gallery. Do try them, and then we'll know they work! Just click on the Email thing now so you can be the first to know what we're getting up to and where.

We've made a special little Christmas present for you below. Hope you enjoy it.

We hope you have all the good bits this Christmas, and a calm and healthy 2015.

Hope to see you soon!

Christine and Veronica
Proud to bring live theatre to your doorstep

(click here if you have problems seeing the video)

How to Book

Lippy Logic is a two-woman show that brings live theatre to your doorstep with laugh-out loud comedy and acute observations of everyday life.

The show is made for Arts centres, village halls, churches, fields, barns, schools, small theatres; after-dinner pieces, Christmas parties, WI's, The Full Monty (er...that's to say "show") - you name it - if you have room for an audience and a small performance area, you can accommodate Lippy Logic, and we'll bring great entertainment and live theatre. Here is just some of our repertoire to date:

From comedy:Two ladies of a certain age meet the might of the Tour De France on a fell in Yorkshire • Hints and Tips of growing courgettes in adversity in a Yorkshire Country Garden • Singing lessons with a Teapot and a Flat Cap
To drama:The lifelong friendship of two friends is testing to breaking point when human frailties are suddenly exposed • the tense relationship between a mother and daughter • handling ageing and ageism

And right now, our 2015 show is making its way through the Lippy Logic notebook.

All you have to do is get an audience together, sell tickets, provide front of house people, oh and lay on refreshments (optional extras but they always go down well with audience and performers!).

We have the technical stuff - props, sound and lighting - we just need electricity to make it work. We can help with posters and publicity.

If you haven't done this before
Give us a call or send an email, and speak to your local authority’s Arts Development Officer who might be able to help. - 

we'd love to hear from you!

Contact us:

Tel: 01729 824537     info@lippylogic.co.uk

Riding high in Hawes!

Well, we made it to the highest market town in England then (aka Hawes!). The bike is now having a rest and we have rather a lot of french sausage to get through. Not to mention the Très Grande Baguette.  The Dales Countryside Museum was a smashing venue, the people were lovely and the audience just great. And we had a jolly good time too! Thanks to everyone who came and who helped.

Here are some audience comments, followed by the press review:

People were very complimentary about Lippy Logic, I heard a lot of warm and positive feedback. I noticed much laughter at the ruder jokes from the elderly ladies......!

I laughed and cried in turn. The 4 part sketch [Photographing Kites] in Part 1 was most moving, and extremely well acted. I thought too that all the complicated scenery/props were really well handled, given you had such a small space. SO.....may you go on from strength to strength. AP

I'm from Australia and I thought I was coming to some amateur village show. But you were so professional, beautiful acting. The first part [Photographing Kites] was so sensitive too.  An Australian visitor

We all thoroughly enjoyed the evening, and there was a full house too.....Your second half [Tour de France] was so funny and was most entertaining. A&JD

WESTMORLAND GAZETTE
Don't be Lippy, use logic and go to theatre
A raptuous crowd enjoyed a fantastic live performance at Dales Countryside Museum

Mary Berry, eat your heart out. A full house missed the final of the Great British Bake Off for a performance by Lippy Logic in Hawes this week. Veronica Caperon and Christine Hooley brought a mixture of banter, song, and serious and comic sketches to an enthusiastic audience.

After some warm-up local humour drawing on the creamery, the rope works and Hardraw Force, the first half moved to a short play touching sensitively and powerfully on mother/daughter relationships, the challenge of finding the right man for some intelligent and forceful women, and the deep pain of the loss in the family. The pain was briefly relieved by the hypocrisy of an over-protective, right-thinking mother of another small child.

The second half began with a topical comic sketch set on the Buttertubs Pass where two women plan to infiltrate the first day of this year's Tour de France and win the first stage. They don't even begin to pedal and are silenced as the competitors zip past but, before and after, the jokes and the laughter flowed. The evening ended with the Wensleydale premiere of Lippy Logic's theme song with witty new words set to a familiar tune. The audience joined in the chorus with a will.

Clever writing and engaging performances showed just why so many of us are happy to leave the telly and the fireside for the live theatre.

Joe Pilling



Thanks very much for all your support

Christine and Veronica
Proud to bring live theatre to your doorstep

Off to the dizzy heights of Hawes!

We've got our oxygen equipment for scaling the heights to Hawes in 2 weeks time on Wednesday 8th October. We just have to work out how to wear it while we get there on our bikes...

This will be our last public outing of the year (but have props, will travel), featuring our modest but highly acclaimed Tour de France adventure, and the funny yet moving "Photographing Kites" One Act Play. So if you've always wanted to know what on earth the fuss is about but never got round to finding out, now's your chance!

There are plenty of outlets in Hawes to get your tickets - click here for details. There are a limited number of tickets available at Crossleigh Stores in Austwick.  If you live in the Austwick-Settle area and would like a lift, or have a spare place in your car let us know and we'll introduce you! 

And what a treat awaits you!

Laugh-out loud comedy and moving drama - that's what it says on our business cards, and we don't disappoint!

The Tour de France may have been and gone but we've still been honing our cycling technique, increasing the cushioning on the saddles daily. We promise you a wallow in the wonderful memory of that sunny day in July and Lippy Logic's conquest of the Cote de Buttertubs . "...first class entertainment. It was punchy, uplifting, funny and really got the audience involved. Your timing throughout, was excellent. Everyone came away laughing, which speaks volumes"

Our drama item "Photographing Kites" brought laughter and tears (in the right places!) "...whilst we’d been warned that it dealt with difficult subject matter, nothing could prepare the audience for the emotional punch as Gill and Sally’s story was revealed" It's funny, tender and sad.

And then there'll be the Wensleydale Premiere of the Lippy Logic Signature Tune which everyone can join in with gusto (bring your ouwn ukulele if you must)!

For more information about our October show in Hawes click here

See you there!

Christine and Veronica

Proud to bring live theatre to your doorstep

Lippy Logic go over the Dales and Far Away

Preparations are underway for our next performance at Dales Countryside Museum Hawes on Wednesday 8th October.

The 3-in-1 oil has been retrieved from the back of the Lippy Logic Potting Shed and liberally applied to the Lippy Logic bikes. Veronica is trying to persuade Christine to try her new training regime but Christine is objecting to the number of up-hill sections it features. Veronica says for every up there's a down; Christine says for every down there's an up. Watch this space to see how the new regime goes down.....or up.....

Tickets are already selling. There are plenty of outlets in Hawes to get your tickets - click here for details. There are a limited number of tickets available at Crossleigh Stores in Austwick.  If you live in the Austwick-Settle area and would like a lift, or have a spare place in your car let us know and we'll introduce you! 

And what a treat awaits you!

The Tour de France may have been and gone but we've still been honing our cycling technique, increasing the cushioning on the saddles daily. We promise you a wallow in the wonderful memory of that sunny day in July and Lippy Logic's conquest of the Cote de Buttertubs . "...first class entertainment. It was punchy, uplifting, funny and really got the audience involved. Your timing throughout, was excellent. Everyone came away laughing, which speaks volumes"

Our drama item "Photographing Kites" brought laughter and tears (in the right places!) "...whilst we’d been warned that it dealt with difficult subject matter, nothing could prepare the audience for the emotional punch as Gill and Sally’s story was revealed...Their reconciliation scene was genuinely heart-breaking"

And then there'll be the Wensleydale Premiere of the Lippy Logic Signature Tune which everyone can join in with gusts - er sorry - gusto!

For more information about our October show in Hawes click here

See you there!

Christine and Veronica

Proud to bring live theatre to your doorstep

High Summer for Lippy Logic

Loyal Lippy Logic followers will have kept track of our...erm...track record over the last couple of annual village produce shows. We're please to say we are keeping our end up -

Third prizes for courgettes and Red Gooseberry jam this year, but our lips are sealed as to who won what. But plenty of material for a future piece of the dramatic arts - especially the astonishing cucumber...

HOWEVER!

Preparations are underway for our next performance at Dales Countryside Museum Hawes on Wednesday 8th October.

Tickets are already selling. There are a limited number of tickets available at Crossleigh Stores in Austwick.  If you live in the Austwick-Settle area and would like a lift, or have a spare place in your car let us know and we'll introduce you!

And what a treat awaits you!

The Tour de France may have been and gone but we've still been honing our cycling technique, increasing the cushioning on the saddles daily. We promise you a wallow in the wonderful memory of that sunny day in July and Lippy Logic's conquest of the Cote de Buttertubs . "...first class entertainment. It was punchy, uplifting, funny and really got the audience involved. Your timing throughout, was excellent. Everyone came away laughing, which speaks volumes"

Our drama item "Photographing Kites" brought laughter and tears (in the right places!) "...whilst we’d been warned that it dealt with difficult subject matter, nothing could prepare the audience for the emotional punch as Gill and Sally’s story was revealed...Their reconciliation scene was genuinely heart-breaking"

 

And then there'll be the Wensleydale Premiere of the Lippy Logic Signature Tune which everyone can join in with gusts - er sorry - gusto!

For more information about our October show in Hawes click here

See you there!

Christine and Veronica

Proud to bring live theatre to your doorstep

"I’ve caught Lippylogicitis" -

Grassington and Yorkshire Festival Fringes' Review 25th June 2014

Who'd have thought we'd be back at Grassington Festival Fringe (as well as the Yorkshire Festival Fringe) this year - and great to see lots of new faces too! Now we know how many calories are burnt on the Tour de France and rather more than we need to about a pig's rectal prolapse...

Many thanks to everyone who came to The Chapel and all those who helped us put the show on. We really do appreciate it.

Booking enquiries: tel: 01729 824537, info@lippylogic.co.uk

Below are some comments from the audience with a full press review at the end. 

Well done both. Writing and acting were superb, funny, entertaining and confidently flawless (and you had me in tears!) More please.  JS

Well, you certainly know how to pluck our heartstrings and connect with our middle-aged lives, joys and angsts. Well done for the conception, writing and execution of a thoroughly entertaining and absorbing evening. I particularly enjoyed the reflective parts of the drama [Photographing Kites] in the first half when the characters were sharing their thoughts and feelings through monologue but because I am a fool at heart, my favourite piece was the Tour de France scene. It just made me laugh and was excellent. GP

We both enjoyed the LL night at Gurston!  (That's what Grassington was called by dialect speakers when l was a child and living there but not heard it called that in years.)  l didn't realise it was a 3 handkerchief night though, [Photographing Kites] was sad. We thought the song just right and the words almost Gilbertian in rhythm.  Keep on writing won't you? LC

Congratulations on an evening of all round entertainment...The second half [Tour de France and Song] was first class entertainment. It was punchy, uplifting, funny and really got the audience involved. Your timing throughout, was excellent. Everyone came away laughing, which speaks volumes. BH

Lippy Logic Rides Again! Grassington Methodist Church 25^th June 2014

Returning to the scene of their debut last year local writing and performing duo Lippy Logic succeeded in entertaining a packed house with their now trademark mix of comedy and drama.

Lippy – Veronica Caperon and Logic – Christine Hooley – leapt on stage to introduce us to their show with a pun filled musical overview of festival headline acts which had the audience dancing and singing within a matter of minutes.

The newly written dramatic piece ‘photographing kites’ followed and whilst we’d been warned that it dealt with difficult subject matter, nothing could prepare the audience for the emotional punch as Gill and Sally’s story was revealed over 4 scenes. The actors convinced us of their mother daughter relationship and the misunderstanding that had prevented them supporting each other through their bereavement. Their reconciliation scene was genuinely heart-breaking and had the audience in tears.

After the interval we were treated to ’Les Dames du Tour de France’ on the côte de Buttertubs enjoying a French feast whilst waiting for the pelican – that’s peloton to cycling fans. A mix of Allo Allo and cycling for beginners the audience lapped it up! – it appears I’ve caught Lippylogicitis. A highlight was the audience singing frère Jacques in the round reworked to reflect the effect of a sea of lycra clad pédaleurs on the locals –I shall never look at a plastic picnic plate the same way again. As in the previous performance the acting was complemented by the props, costumes and soundtrack.

The finale was a comical new theme song ‘Now that We’re Fifty’ extolling the advantages of being fifty....ish to the strains of the ukulele performed with gusto by LL and their audience. As they say in their signature song “they’re feisty and flighty”‘ – looking forward to next year’s entertainment already.

JJ

Our next show is on Wednesday 8th October 2014 at Dales Countryside Museum Hawes, in aid of Hawes Parish Church. (Details here) 
Please note: we have no plans for another show in Craven this year

We'd love to hear from you - you can email your comments to info@lippylogic.co.uk, or add your comment below this post (choose "anonymous" from drop-down box)

Thanks very much again for all your support!

Christine and Veronica
Proud to bring live theatre to your doorstep

Lippy Logic Rides Again!

With Christine Hooley and Veronica Caperon at Grassington Festival Fringe on Wednesday 25th June 8pm at The Chapel - Methodist Church in Grassington. Also part of the Yorkshire Festival Fringe celebrating Le Grand Depart du Tour de France cette année in our fine county

Tickets £7.  Box office: 01756 752691
(online booking fee applies).
Just a few tickets left at Crossleigh Stores, Austwick 015242 51415

For our details of our Hawes show this year go to Tour Dates. Be warned - tickets are already going!

Lock up your spare tyres, hide your onions...
Zut Alors! We're off sur la route encore une fois!

yorkshirefestival.co.uk

Laugh-out Loud Comedy and Moving Drama dans les Dales de Yorkshire. That's what we have in store for you as we ride into Grassington at the end of June ahead of Le Tour De France ooh la-la!

If you have a bike pump and spanners, bring them along - anything can happen when we saddle up to conquer le piste magnifique de Wensleydale et Swaledale. And if you don't know much about Le Tour, despairez-vous not. Veronique will have encyclopaedic knowledge at her finger tips (Oh sorry everyone - beaucoup de groans! Christine). And they'll have un moment for a petit peu de quelquechose je ne sais quoi (if Christine remembers to pack it all...Veronica) 

We've got quite a reputation now for presenting drama as well as comedy. In our new piece "Photographing Kites" a grandmother and her daughter try to make sense of devastating events which happen over a 12 month period: "a really touching piece – quite heart wrenching and excellent acting", "mixture of humour and observation of human situations" - audience comments from the Edgmond show in Shropshire in May.

Down in the Lippy Logic potting shed which doubles as a rehearsal space and bike store, we have been preparing what we shall call 'our song', but it could be yours too, especially if you're in the second flush of youth.   

So polish up your pedals and fasten your helmets - hope to see you there!

Christine and Veronica
Proud to bring live theatre to your doorstep
Please share this with your friends and email contacts. For more information, contact us at info@lippylogic.co.uk

Riding in and out of Shropshire!

An evening of "Laugh-out loud Comedy and Moving Drama"....

Edgmond Village Hall, near Newport Shropshire

That's what we took to Edgmond at the beginning of May and it seemed to go down well, along with the fish and chips supper.

When the Lippy Logic pencils come out and make contact with the Lippy Logic paper (you didn't think we just threw it all together did you? - Christine), our aim is to blend fun sketches with some emotional drama - it's what people tell us they like best about our shows! So the Salopian show featured highlights from our 2013 show and new material for 2014.

Thankfully, the audience was appreciative and warm (probably stoked up by the heat from our new lights - Veronica)

"Yorkshire Country Garden" certainly had the audience laughing out loud before their supper as two novice gardeners tried to get to grips with their northern gardens,

aided and abetted by "willing" members of the audience on a variety of instruments that look suspiciously as though they had come from the greenhouse!



The second half was the Moving Drama bit. In one of our new items for 2014 "Photographing Kites",  a grandmother and her daughter try to come to terms with family tragedy; it's a sensitive piece with wry observations alongside touching emotion - as a few of the audience found to their surprise:

Brilliant show tonight! How you remember all those words I just don't know!  CB

I thoroughly enjoyed your show on Saturday.  You two have a natural chemistry and great writing and performing skills.  It was a great mixture of humour and observation of human situations.  Unfortunately [a few in the audience] were a little slow on the uptake...[who] perhaps did not pick up some of the subtleties! EB

The 2nd half of the show was a really touching piece – quite heart wrenching and excellent acting, although I suspect some of the audience werent prepared emotionally for that sort of piece as it was advertised as a light hearted entertainment – but it was so well done and I found it very touching.

And I cant get the chorus of ‘BUT, we're here and we’re happy etc.....’ out of my head as I turn 50 next year , so I know what I’ll be singing in 2015 !  AW

Very well done to you both...really enjoyed it....all so professional  JL

A good evening, much enjoyed by all  CW

Thumbs up all round! It was a very entertaining evening! You are two very talented ladies!  DJ

Some of the audience comments there, and our thanks to everyone who came along and those who helped organise the evening, in aid of Edgmond Village Hall. 

Christine and Veronica

Proud to bring live theatre to you doorstep

Lippy Logic Rides Again at Grassington Festival Fringe!

Lippy Logic Rides Again with Christine Hooley and Veronica Caperon at Grassington Festival Fringe on Wednesday 25th June 8pm at The Chapel - Methodist Church in Grassington.
Tickets £7. 

Box office: 01756 752691. Tickets also available at Crossleigh Stores, Austwick 015242 51415

(for details of the Edgmond Show in May - click here)

Please share this with your friends and email contacts. For more information, contact us at info@lippylogic.co.uk

Laugh-out Loud Comedy and Moving Drama in the Dales

Much to our amazement, Grassington Festival Fringe are having us back this year! 

Following our unforgettable debut in 2013, Lippy Logic return with that unique blend of laugh-out loud comedy and touching drama. We'll be performing new original sketches with fun, thought-provoking and absorbing material.

Look out for a hilarious account as two ladies of a certain age take on the might of the Tour De France. To contrast that we will bring you poignant family memories and a new musical contribution especially for 2014, all topped up with what the Craven Herald calls "the duo's engaging personalities and wicked sense of humour". (do they mean us then?- Christine)

yorkshirefestival.co.uk

The eagle eyed amongst you will spot that we perform at Grassington not only as part of the Festival Fringe, but also as part the Yorkshire Festival Fringe too. This celebrates Le Grand Depart of the Tour de France at the beginning of July in Yorkshire. Well, could we let such a momentous occasion pass without adding our own six-pennyworth? Mais Non! So stand by your pumps for a bumpy ride!

Last year we were delighted to have a sell out show - despite North Yorks County Council highways department closing the road on the way. So, oil that chain and get on yer bike to book your tickets soon....

See you there!

Christine and Veronica
Proud to bring live theatre to you doorstep
To find out what Lippy Logic get up to click here

Shropshire Survives Lippy Logic!

Not a sleepy Shropshire anymore!

What a time we had! And the audience seemed to enjoy themselves too. They laughed and sang along and even braved the Lippy Logic orchestral instruments for a fine rendition of Yorkshire Country Garden, despite border issues and the north/south divide. (Yes, Shropshire is South for us!)

There was rapt silence as we brought our moving piece "Photographing Kites" to a close. (Well, Veronica, maybe they'd all fallen asleep by then - Christine). 

And as for the singing at the end...well there have never been so many people being feisty and flighty in the village hall before. Don't expect it again!

Our new lights and sound equipment worked - Hurray! and much thanks to John D for that!

Thank you so much to Paula, Tim and all the village hall committee, to Edric for being such a good sport and fine cinematographer (if enough people ask for a copy of the show, we'll make some!) and to our instrumentalists Jane, Graham (aka Basil Fawlty) and Mr and Mrs Rob Hill (on behalf of the Lippy Logic Management Council, please accept my sincerest apologies Mrs Hill for Christine's rather forward greeting to your husband in full view, on stage - Veronica)

And also apologies to people living along the High Street from the village hall to the hall secretary's house if you were disturbed around midnight by murmurings that sounded very much like a small group of feisty and flighty women staggering back to eat their fish and chips at last!

So we'll leave you with a few comments from the audience (the ones fit to print), and look forward to seeing you again one day soon!

Brilliant show tonight! How you remember all those words I just don't know!  CB

I thoroughly enjoyed your show on Saturday.  You two have a natural chemistry and great writing and performing skills.  It was a great mixture of humour and observation of human situations.  Unfortunately [a few in the audience] were a little slow on the uptake...[who] perhaps did not pick up some of the subtleties! EB

Very well done to you both...really enjoyed it....all so professional  JL

A good evening, much enjoyed by all  CW

Thumbs up all round! It was a very entertaining evening! You are two very talented ladies!  DJ

Christine and Veronica

Proud to bring live theatre to your doorstep

To book our show "Lippy Logic Rides Again" at your venue, contact info@lippylogic.co.uk

Click here to find out more about  Lippy Logic from 2013 
email us for more! info@lippylogic.co.uk

Riding High! Yorkshire Festival

We are absolutely delighted to announce that our 2014 show is part of the Yorkshire Festival Fringe celebrating Le Tour de France in Angleterre!

"Lippy Logic Rides Again" is our all new production of laugh-out loud comedy and moving drama.

Just imagine the scene when two ladies of a certain age come up against the might of the Tour de France in the Yorkshire Dales....

You can find out what happens on Wednesday 25th June  - full details of this and our other shows this year will be published soon.

Meantime do have a look at us and the Yorkshire Festival website or brochure to see what's in store from many and varied arts groups in the 100 days leading up to Le Grand Départ:

Yorkshire Festival 2014 is the first ever arts festival to precede the Grand Départ in its 111 year history. Nearly 50 events have been selected to be officially part of Yorkshire Festival 2014 which will also include hundreds of fringe events. Visit www.yorkshirefestival.co.uk, Yorkshire Festival on Facebook or follow Yorkshire Festival 2014 on Twitter - YFest2014

A bientôt!

Christine et Veronique

Proud to bring live theatre to your doorstep:

To book tickets, or our show "Lippy Logic Rides Again" at your venue, contact lippylogic@gmail.com

Click here to find out more about  "A Double Dose of Lippy Logic" from 2013

email us or add a comment below (as anonymous if all else fails!)

Out-Takes from 2013 show

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We have exciting news to tell you in 2 or 3 weeks time - keep your an eye on the blog!!

Hi Everyone

Can we be the last to wish you a very Happy New Year!

If you thought we'd gone away for a while, fear not.

We're hard at work being creative on our 2014 show. We developing a brand new ±!@£$, not to mention writing another +_)(*& and a moving story of a %^&$* and a ?><:". And if Veronica can pull her finger out, Christine might even let her use her new _+}{<? talent. And then there's Christine's amazing skill with ^!±+_&%, so watch this spot!

All will be revealed in due course. In the meantime, we've put together this little fly on the wall collection of out-takes from rehearsals last year. It's amazing we ever got anything to the stage! Click here to see it   be patient - round our way "broadband" means what a lady of a certain age has round her middle when she takes off her elasticated slacks, so please excuse the buffering. But we won't tell what that means round our way...

Keep in touch and stand by for more news soon.

Christine and Veronica
To look back on our Double Dose of Lippy Logic show in 2013 click here  and here