Fittings Multimedia Arts

Raspberry is a musical inspired by the life and times of legendary disabled performer, Ian Dury. Written by award-winning playwright Garry Robson of Fittings Multimedia Arts, the play is showing at Oval House Theatre, London - 1 February to 19 February. (See DAO listings for details) This blog by members of the cast, follows on from a series of blogs posted when Fittings toured the UK with the show for six weeks in 2010.

Christine Bruno as Rita from Raspberry

10 February 2011

Chris Bruno drops in to sees Nick Dear's Frankenstein at the National Theatre... and ruminates on perceptions of the 'freak'

It’s the first rainy day since I’ve been in London, just about three weeks now, and even though it’s Thursday, I can’t get that old Carpenters tune out of my head. It’s...

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garry robson dressed in black as the character spasticus

4 February 2011

Garry Robson inspires not a few Raspberry Ripples

It's four in the morning, late on in January, I’m writing this blog on a tired Olivetti, London is cold but i like where I’m living, there’s music at the Oval House on every evening...

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6 May 2010

Chris Bruno gives an affectionate account of touring the UK with Fittings Multimedia's Raspberry

Those of you who’ve been following Raspberry in these pages for the last two months, know the character of Rita is played by an American; specifically an American from the bustling,...

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photo of actor playing Ian Dury

25 April 2010

Garry Robson gets excited about the response to Raspberry in Manchester

“Arseholes, b_st_rds, f_ckin, c_nts and pr_cks” - now aint that one of the greatest first lines of a song ever written. The fabulous Mr Dury leaves the listener in no doubt of what he...

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photo of performer on stage

15 April 2010

Garry Robson loves bringing out the raspberry ripple in his audiences

'Spasticus meets Dennis the Menace' “I love it! That memory will stay with me till the day I die” Thus spake one ecstatic audience member at the Traverse, Edinburgh, last week as a crowd...

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photo of two performers on stage

1 April 2010

Christine Bruno gets excited as she gets the part of Rita in Fittings new musical 'Raspberry' - by internet audition 6,000 miles away!

Six degrees of separation is a funny thing… you never realize it’s working its magic as it’s happening. But when you look back on the sequence of events that lead up to the event...

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