The ‘Fall Out’ shows
Louise Gold was one of several professional actors
roped into appearing with the ‘Fall Out’ Company in one or other of their shows.
Please note, the information the webmaster currently
has about the Fall Out shows is very sparse, so there are quite a lot of
gaps in what is presented below. If anyone can help with any further
information please contact the webmaster 
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About The ‘Fall Out’ group
The Fall Out group was a combination of amateur
actors and resting professionals, mostly under the direction of Una
Brandon-Jones (an extraordinary individual who started her theatrical
career as an amateur actress, writer, director and producer at Unity Theatre
and went on to become a professional actress from 1945 onwards). The amateurs
were mostly remnants from
Because of its close association with Unity Theatre
people the Fall Out group has sometimes been referred to as a regrouped
continuation of Unity Theatre.
Fall Out mounted three major shows, mainly written
and directed by Una Brandon-Jones, and all three were presented in a
variety of venues, with various casts (depending on who was available when).
The three major productions were as follows:
A
revue about nuclear armaments. This was presented at the time of the Cruise
missile crisis and Greenham Common.
An
Environmental Show
Gulf
War - a show about the Gulf war.
Actors:
included at one time or another
Chris
Barrie
Louise
Gold
Max Gold
Jane
Pulford (as Mrs
Thatcher in Gulf War)
Production Team
Writer and Director - Una Brandon-Jones
Tour Dates
Gulf War
Finsbury Library, Islington
Tour of
For a few details about Una
Brandon-Jones & Unity Theatre itself, please click here.
It might be noted that on at least one occasion
(mostly likely around about 1984) Louise Gold was pressed into giving
her services to Fall Out, because a large number of the cast had
gone sick. This was perhaps reminiscent of the way her indefatigable mother had
not infrequently ended up being asked to perform a song or sketch in Unity’s
WWII revues when one or other of the cast had had to pull out. In fact Louise
almost certainly got roped into appearing with Fall Out precisely
because she is her mother’s daughter; she couldn’t refuse the request.
Having been roped in herself, Louise Gold may have
had a hand in roping Chris Barrie, a colleague from the political satire
TV show Spitting Image, into appearing with
the group.
As professional actors/ voice-artistes, Louise Gold
and Chris Barrie feature on the Spitting Image album Spit In Your Ear the first Spitting Image single Da Do Run Ron
and a charity LP Utterly
Utterly Live Comic Relief. They both spoke about their involvement with Spitting
Image on television on Spitting
Image: Must See TV.
Louise Gold and Max Gold went
on to appear together, very definitely in their capacity as professional
actors, in Our Country’s Good and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
In 2003, Louise Gold went on to put her
connections with the world of amateur theatre to good use, playing the role of
an amateur theatre director in a sketch in the revue Curtain
Up
Critics Comments
Links about The Fall
Out shows
Jane Pulford’s homepage (mentions her
appearance in Fall Out’s Gulf War show, she refers to the group as ‘Unity
Theatre’: http://www.janepulford.com/
Muppet Central Interview with Louise Gold
(although she doesn’t mention her contribution to Fall Out, she does mention
Unity Theatre, and, Una Brandon-Jones): http://www.muppetcentral.com/articles/interviews/gold.shtml
TheatreNow.Com interview with Louise Gold about
Follies (although she doesn’t mention her contribution to Fall Out, she does mention
her connections with the world of Political Theatre): http://www.theatrenow.com/asp/link.htm?news.asp?art=3430&cat=1
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