Private Drama
Private Drama are an award winning events company that I have been working with since their early days and when the M.D of Private Drama held his 50th Birthday party and needed an act that would play well to 35 of his closest friends he asked me to come along and perform a 30 minute after dinner cabaret.
Strange as it may sound the biggest problem with these smaller cabarets is visibility. The rooms are rarely set up for a performance and as I perform some effects on a table it is important that the guests can see the top of the table. Luckily for me Adam from Private Drama had arranged for a small platform to be set-up at the end of the room, (you’d expect that from one of the countries leading event organisers!) and so part of the issue was resolved, however with the room being long and narrow it is difficult to balance raising yourself high enough for the people at the back to see while not going so high that the guests at the front are looking up at the bottom of the table. On this particular occasion I feel we struck a happy medium.
The great benefit of more intimate cabarets is the variety of material you can perform. Smaller effects that are often reserved for close-up work can very often fit in to this style of performance although it can be a pretty close judgment call. For me it meant at this event I could perform the Cups & Balls, which Adam actually had requested, along with a few other classics.
Thank you so much for your brilliant performance on Saturday. I had lots of comments on the night about your astonishing cabaret performance and I am still getting emails today from friends who are still puzzling how you managed to make a fifty pound note move from one envelope to another and make a whole variety of fruit roll out from under your magical cups. Absolutely fantastic!
