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Princess Pumpalot: A Perfect Fit
Submitted by robin_m on Sat, 14/05/2016 - 12:41You know someone is destined to play the part of Princess Pumpalot when the costume fits like a glove. Stepping out of the shadows to play Princess Pumpalot in Princess Pumpalot: The Radio Show — Live On Stage! at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the very talented Julie Heatherill.
Julie graduated with a BA Acting degree from Glasgow’s Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD) in 2007. After gaining a great deal of professional experience, she went back to pursue her other love in life: dancing. In 2010 she graduated once again, this time gaining her BTEC in Dance and an A in Higher Dance.
Julie recently performed in Starbird, a co-production between Mull Theatre and Toto Tales, a National Tour of Scotland, Highlands and the Islands.
Previous theatre credits include Carnegie (Ian Hammond Brown), Aladdin (Howden Park Theatre), The Little Mermaid (On in Fife), Cinderella (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh), Silence in Court (Emerald Blue Productions, Edinburgh Fringe), Cross Currents (Telford Dance College, Edinburgh), Beneath You: Spider Girls are Everywhere (Birds of Paradise Theatre Company, National Tour), All’s Well that Ends Well (Arches Theatre, Glasgow/RSC Complete Works Festival).
At the first ever script read-through of Princess Pumpalot: The Farting Princess in 2013, Julie read the part of Princess Pumpalot. It's great she's finally able to play the role, reuniting with Director, Liam Rudden. #Fart2016.
Princess Pumpalot Tickets
Submitted by robin_m on Thu, 21/04/2016 - 12:20Tickets are NOW on sale for the 2016 Cadies Productions / LRStageworks Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of Princess Pumpalot: The Radio Show - Live on Stage!
The show will be performed at Sweet Venues, Apex Grasssmarket (4th to 16th, 20 & 21st August) at 11.30am. This is a NEW show for 2016 and stars Julie Heatherill, Carole Andrew and Arron Usher. The Director is Liam Rudden.
Get your tickets HERE.
#Fart2016
Arcus and Mandragora Sponsorship
Submitted by robin_m on Sat, 16/04/2016 - 11:15We are delighted announce that the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe production of our BRAND NEW show, Princess Pumpalot: The Radio Show - Live on Stage!, is to be sponsored by Mandragora Productions and Arcus Animation Studios.
Arcus is a 2D animation studio that creates broadcast animation, promotional videos, video installations, in-house original content and develops new IP. They have enjoyed producing work for the likes of CBBC and E4, partnered with local and national agencies and brought outdoor events to life with spectacular animation based art installations.
Mandragora Productions are a UK based independent production company who work in all aspects of production and development of shorts and feature films, television entertainment, comedy, drama, childrens, corporate & network commercials, training, web design and multimedia.
Having secured the animation rights to Princess Pumpalot, Mandragora and Arcus were keen to support the 2016 show while turning Princess Pumpalot’s world of Wiffyville into an animated series. We shall be using some of the newly created images as projected backdrops in the actual show. #Fart2016.
A New Farting Princess
Submitted by robin_m on Sun, 10/04/2016 - 17:07We are excited to reveal that this Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the wonderfully talented Julie Heatherill will debut as Princess Pumpalot in the brand new Princess Pumpalot: The Radio Show - Live On Stage!
The casting reunites Julie with. Director Liam Rudden, familiar to all Musselburgh Brunton Theatre panto audiences.
The multi-talented David Mairs will appear as Guffy and he's joined by the fabulous Carole Anders as Cookie Crumble.
Did you know? Julie Heatherill was the original choice for Princess Pumpalot and played the role at early script read-throughs until other work commitments spirited her away from us.
The production is sponsored by Mandragora and Arcus Animation Studios.
Princess Pumpalot: The Story So Far
Submitted by robin_m on Sat, 09/04/2016 - 12:09Writer/Producer of Princess Pumpalot: The Farting Princess, Robin Mitchell, explains how the Princess came about.
While on holiday in Ireland in August 2011, the children's character Princess Pumpalot: The Farting Princess was born. I was staying with family in Dublin and on one particular rainy day, the idea for a farting princess was hatched.
It was the name – Princess Pumpalot - I liked at first. It made me laugh. It made anyone I told laugh. I instantly saw Princess Pumpalot as a ‘tom boy’, so introduced her to the game of rugby. She needed a sidekick, so Guffy was born.
The other characters inhabiting the fictional world of Wiffyville (The King, The Queen, The Two Princes’, The Low-Flying Gnomes, Geoffrey the Giraffe and the Bearded Witch) took a little more time to develop.
The book was published in July 2012 and shortly after this I met Theatre Director Liam Rudden, who liked the story so much, he suggested producing a stage show based on the book. Well, I didn’t expect anything to happen overnight but when you’re dealing with Liam, things tend to happen before you even suggest them. So by the summer of 2013 we were producing an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show which premiered at The Assembly Rooms.
I’ve been asking as many people as I can who buy a copy of Princess Pumpalot: The Farting Princess to take a photo of themselves with the book. The photos have been added to Flickr online and by October 2015, over 200 photos had been uploaded to the site.
There was such a great response from 2013 show both from the audiences and the critics we knew we had created an enjoyable child-friendly production. Plans were soon underway for the 2014 show which took place at The New Town Theatre and our third incarnation was staged in August 2015 at Sweet Venues in Edinburgh’s Grassmarket.
Also in June 2015, The Italian premiere of Princess Pumpalot: The Farting Princess with a stage production, based on the original text of the book, took place in Northern Italy. The production was performed by the Benvenuto Players - an English speaking Youth Theatre Group run by Theatre Producer Alison Parnell.
A new show has been written for the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, called Princess Pumpalot: The Radio Show - Live On Stage! I based the new story around Princess Pumpalot and Guffy’s quest for the powerful purple super-farting bean. An early version of this show was tested at The Leith Festival with a lot of positive feedback.
On the back of the Fringe shows, the animation rights were snapped up by Mandragora Productions and Arcus Animation Studios. I never realised farting could travel so far. It’s quite remarkable how the Princess has taken off. She’s certainly gone from strength to strength and she hasn’t finished farting yet.
World Down Syndrome Day
Submitted by robin_m on Mon, 07/03/2016 - 16:12In March 2016, as part of World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), Breadmakers (Director: Yasmin Fedda) will be screened in Slovenia.
The screening, to raise awareness and to fight stereotypes, will take place in Ljubljana as part of a short films presentation by The Kraken Short Film Society.
Breadmakers is a short 2007 documentary film directed by Yasmin Fedda and produced by Jim Hickey and Robin Mitchell. This is a film about a unique Edinburgh bakery, where a community of workers with learning disabilities make a variety of organic breads for daily delivery to shops and cafes in the city. The Garvald Bakery is part of a centre inspired by the ideas of Rudolf Steiner where the workers realise their potential for self-discovery and creativity in a social environment.
World Down Syndrome Day (WDSD), observed on 21st March every year, is a global awareness day which has been officially observed by the United Nations since 2012.
What's Happening Next
Submitted by robin_m on Fri, 08/01/2016 - 17:422015 was quite a year for us with a variety of interesting projects including further development of Wiffyville Royalty - Princess Pumpalot: The Farting Princess (both book, stage show and animation) and the première of our new play May I Have The Bill Please?
2016 will kick off with another film project with Relationships Scotland which we're very much looking forward to. We then turn our attention to the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe (more to follow).
Seasonal Greetings
Submitted by robin_m on Fri, 25/12/2015 - 16:32Seasonal Greetings from all the team at Cadies Productions.
Wishing everyone a safe and successful 2016.