APPEAL SUPPORTERS
Thank you thank you thank you to all the wonderful people below who have pledged money and support so far!
updated June 3rd, 23:25
CURRENT TOTAL: £2333.48
+ 2 cases of Red Bull, a box of cinnamon buns and triple espressos all round
| No. | Date |
Name |
Pledge |
Total £ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
001 |
6 Apr |
Jack Thorne | 30p per play minus £1.10 for being fat, middle-class, white, male Cambridge undergraduates |
£10 |
| 002 | 6 Apr | Mark Stanford | £5 | |
| 003 | 6 Apr | Simon Radford | £5 | |
| 004 | 6 Apr | Vicky Kaziewicz | 50p per play | £18.50 |
| 005 | 7 Apr | Rob Asher | £10 plus fiver bonus if there are jazz hands in the middle of one of Macbeth's soliloquies. Confession: we lamentably omitted the jazz hands! Too busy concentrating on Yorkshire accents ... sooo sorry. | £10 |
| 006 | 7 Apr | Vaughan Watts | £5 | |
| 007 | 9 Apr | Alex Outhwaite | £10 plus 5p per Barbara Windsor saucy giggle after each Carry-On style "wit" gag that comes up. 27 wit gag giggles - Keir counted them. | £11.35 |
| 008 | 9 Apr | Liz Halbert | 10p per play, up to a fiver if we do the lot | £5 |
| 009 | 10 Apr | Helen Allman | £10 | |
| 010 | 10 Apr | Jim Riley | £10 | |
| 011 | 10 Apr | Kieran Dimmick | A pound a play | £37 |
| 012 | 13 Apr | Dr Kate Bennett | £10 per boring Henry VI play plus £10 for extra nourishment needed for three Falstaff plays | £40 |
| 013 | 13 Apr | Red Bull UK | Anna, Entertainments Manager: "It sounds like a very exhausting event, good luck! We will send you a couple of cases of Red Bull to keep the performers going!" | 2 cases Red Bull |
| 014 | 13 Apr | Chris Smith MP, former Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport | "This project is brave, crazy and brilliant. It's for a great cause. Shakespeare himself would undoubtedly have approved. Good luck to Ben and his team." | |
| 015 | 15 Apr | Mikey Lear | 0.000000015p for the first play, twice that for the second, and so on ... | £20.62 |
| 016 | 15 Apr | Grant Naylor Productions, the makers of Red Dwarf | "We wish you all the best with the fascinating - if not a little bonkers - venture. Erm...Forsooth!" | |
| 017 | 17 Apr | Michael Nabarro | £10 | |
| 018 | 17 Apr | Keir Shiels | A tenner if Ben performs the whole epilogue of 2 Henry IV while dancing. Any genre will do - Cossack would be impressive, disco-style passable, or maybe a waltz with the Dexter? Ian did more than enough capering for us to encourage him thus - but Keir kindly contributed anyway! | £10 |
| 019 | 17 Apr | Mike Thompson | £5 | |
| 020 | 17 Apr | Joy Haughton | 50p per play | £18.50 |
| 021 | 18 Apr | Fred Crawley | 20p per play performed, 50p per play missed altogether (?!), plus £1 if someone guffs audibly during Hamlet. No plays missed, no audible guff in Hamlet I'm afraid ... but there were a good few in various other plays, particularly post-Chinese takeaway. We'll leave this to your discretion. | £7.40 |
| 022 | 18 Apr | Anne Collett | £10 | |
| 023 | 19 Apr | Michael Burrell, renowned actor, director and playwright | "A valiant effort to render the Complete Works of the Bard.. I should certainly wish to encourage you in this remarkable venture, as any project which keeps young would-be actors in a state of sleepless exhaustion merits all the support it can get." | |
| 024 | 20 Apr | Joel Lindop | 20p per play + £2 "if you can please have Dexter as Lady Macbeth, BDJ as Macbeth himself and Sangster as all witches and demons + a convincing bit of silent acting from Sangster as Banquo's ghost --- other parts assigned as you please" Yep! | £9.40 |
| 025 | 20 Apr | Kate Banyard | 75p per play + £2.25 on completion + £5 if we get at least three random strangers to take speaking parts. Well, we got just the one - but she was from Azerbaijan!! | £30 |
| 026 | 20 Apr | Isobel Barry | 10p per play + £1.30 if Richard III is played as a sympathetic Yorkshireman Yep! | £5 |
| 027 | 20 Apr | Claire Dancer | 20p per play | £7.40 |
| 028 | 21 Apr | Ann Kershaw | £20 | |
| 029 | 21 Apr | Jean James | £10 | |
| 030 | 22 Apr | Nick Fyson | 20p per play + £2.60 if Hamlet's soliloquies are read in the style of Withnail, particularly 'What a piece of work is man'. Eek, sorry - missed this one, caught up in the moment. | £7.40 |
| 031 | 23 Apr | Jeremy Thomas | £100 | |
| 032 | 23 Apr | Kathryn Jackson | £10 | |
| 033 | 23 Apr | Andy Titchener | £5 | |
| 034 | 23 Apr | Dr Alan "Dr D" Dawson | £50 | |
| 035 | 23 Apr | Dr Andrew Michael | £5 | |
| 036 | 23 Apr | Dr Simon Lewis | £5 | |
| 037 | 23 Apr | Michelle Bowen | £5 | |
| 038 | 23 Apr | Neil Reay | £5 | |
| 039 | 23 Apr | Emma Smith | £5 | |
| 040 | 23 Apr | Anna Robbins | £5 | |
| 041 | 23 Apr | Allie Fleming | £5 plus an extra £5 for an as yet unspecified challenge ... | £10 |
| 042 | 23 Apr | Dr Mark Berry | £10 | |
| 043 | 24 Apr | Matt Cooke | £5 | |
| 044 | 24 Apr | Kulbinder Mann | Include some hula hoops in some way. They were around, certainly. The intention was to use them as rings in various plays that need such things. Ian also capered like a hula girl a number of times, with a virtual hula hoop of the non-salted variety. | £7.50 |
| 045 | 25 Apr | Tigger MacGregor | £12 | |
| 046 | 26 Apr | Tom Gunkel | £10 if you make a (wholly inappropriate) character in one of the plays suffer from a temporary illness which makes them become German Yep! | £10 |
| 047 | 26 Apr | Alex Whittaker | £10 plus triple espressos all round if you involve giggling Japanese tourists who haven't a clue what is going on as much as possible. Does Southwark News's Derrick Hung from Taiwan count, quoted as not having a clue what it was all about? | £10 + triple espressos all round |
| 048 | 26 Apr | Nigel Dexter | 10p a play, plus £1.30 if Ian plays a major role with a German accent, plus a box of cinnamon buns | £5 + a box of cinnamon buns |
| 049 | 26 Apr | Chris Daley | 10p a play plus £1.30 just to see Ian Dexter play Ophelia! Oh yes! | £5 |
| 050 | 26 Apr | Matt Davey | £5 | |
| 051 | 26 Apr | Dolf Grasveld | £5 | |
| 052 | 26 Apr | Em Roxanas | £5 if Richard II is played like Alan Partridge. A memorable performance from Mr Shiels indeed ... | £5 |
| 053 | 26 Apr | John Girdlestone | £5 | |
| 054 | 26 Apr | Roger Westcott | £5 | |
| 055 | 26 Apr | Yvette Hooks | £10 | |
| 056 | 26 Apr | Pam Tyers | £10 | |
| 057 | 26 Apr | Xiaoling He | £5 | |
| 058 | 26 Apr | Jill Shaw | £5 | |
| 059 | 26 Apr | Maria Casanio | £5 | |
| 060 | 26 Apr | Kris | £5 | |
| 061 | 26 Apr | Helen Gossage | £1 | |
| 062 | 26 Apr | Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London | "I regret that due to the constraints of my diary it will not be possible for me to attend one of your performances. However I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your friends the best of luck in raising the necessary funds to support your work in the orphanage." | |
| 063 | 26 Apr | Stan Lazic | £5 | |
| 064 | 26 Apr | Sio Ball | £10 plus £5 if the entirety of Macbeth is performed in Yorkshire accents. Yes, we did it - the toughest challenge of the lot! | £15 |
| 065 | 27 Apr | Ed Curry | £10 | |
| 066 | 27 Apr | Dr Wendy Phillips | £5 | |
| 067 | 27 Apr | William Kuq | £5 | |
| 068 | 27 Apr | Dr Roger Barker | £5 | |
| 069 | 27 Apr | Vivki Sparkes | £5 | |
| 070 | 27 Apr | Jo Brown | £3 | |
| 071 | 27 Apr | Dr Maeve Caldwell | £10 | |
| 072 | 27 Apr | Adam Shindler | £5 | |
| 073 | 29 Apr | Tammy Harvey | £10 | |
| 074 | 29 Apr | Dr Mark Wormald | £10 | |
| 075 | 29 Apr | Precious Lunga | £10 | |
| 076 | 29 Apr | Craig Secker | £2 | |
| 077 | 29 Apr | Melissa Holston | 10p per play, up to a fiver when we complete | £5 |
| 078 | 29 Apr | Adam Wilcox | £5, on condition that someone takes some photos so that he can laugh at Ian in tights | £5 |
| 079 | 29 Apr | Doreen & Mel Shiels | £20 | |
| 080 | 29 Apr | Kenneth Branagh | “I
did this once before myself – drink lots of water! – and great good
luck with this splendid cause.” |
|
| 081 | 29 Apr | Ruthy Jackson | Broad oirish accents for at least one scene in Hamlet or King Lear please. Yep! Though they may not have been that recognisable as oirish. | £10 |
| 082 | 29 Apr | Peter Griffin | £5 | |
| 083 | 29 Apr | Andrew Lowes | £5 | |
| 084 | 30 Apr | Kevin Bailey (a random guy Keir met in a bar) | £20 | |
| 085 | 30 Apr | Tim Sangster | £1 a play, rounded up to ... | £40 |
| 086 | 30 Apr | Kate "The Medic" Musgrave | 20p a play | £7.40 |
| 087 | 30 Apr | Tom Seligman | £1 a syllable in following exchange: "Give me my sin again" (He kisses her) "You kiss by th'book!" - Romeo and Juliet Must include proper full-on kissage. I haven't washed since. | £14 |
| 088 | 30 Apr | The Parents | £400 | |
| 089 | 3 May | Kate Merriam | £20 | |
| 090 | 3 May | Anne Mullen | £2 | |
| 091 | 3 May | Martin Hargreaves | £1 | |
| 092 | 3 May | Judy Haynes | £2 | |
| 093 | 3 May | Deb Bagnall | £2 | |
| 094 | 3 May | Becky Stephenson | £1 | |
| 095 | 3 May | Chris Frodsham | £2 | |
| 096 | 3 May | Sue Wojtulewicz | £2 | |
| 097 | 3 May | Jane Green | £2 | |
| 098 | 3 May | Jackie Fraser | £2 | |
| 099 | 3 May | Bernadette Roberts | £2 | |
| 100 | 3 May | Hannah Richards | £2 | |
| 101 | 3 May | Vivien Norman | £10 | |
| 102 | 4 May | Margaret Stephenson | £5 | |
| 103 | 4 May | The Great British Public | Bankside on Saturday | £302.90 |
| 104 | 4 May | The Great British Public | Bankside on Sunday | £479.01 |
| 105 | 9 May | Christina Egan | £5 | |
| 106 | 9 May | Liz Bell | £25 | |
| 107 | 10 May | Mary Sangster | £20 | |
| 108 | 10 May | Becky Jones | £5 | |
| 109 | 10 May | Andy Newing | £5 | |
| 110 | 22 May | Natalie Trangmar | Pound a play | £37 |
| 111 | 30 May | James Webbe | £5 | |
| 112 | 30 May | Mr & Mrs Lowes | £50 | |
| 113 | 30 May | Adam Williamson | £10 | |
| 114 | 3 June | Ed Whiting | £10 | |
© Ben James 2004