Terry Neason's Slaps 'n Tickles
SYNOPSIS:
Terry Neason is a Scottish singer / actress / comedienne with a voice like velvet drenched in a peaty single malt.
She can take you on a journey which touches every emotion, an ability to carry you from laughter to tears in the same breath. Her versatile voice seamlessly slips from a silky smooth baritone to raunchy blues mama with a delicate soprano thrown in for good measure. She'll belt a Callas and a Piaf and then destroy you with Billie Holliday!
And apart from her stupendous singing, she'll make you laugh. She reads poetry, tells stories and melds music with words in supreme expressiveness...
Terry's shows are very flexible, and are often tailored to the area or audience; they can be booked to play in theatre or cabaret format.
Love Bites! premièred at Edinburgh 1998 and was awarded a Herald Angel. It played in Singapore and Toronto, at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith, and on a limited UK tour. Slaps and Tickles shares the previous show's outlook and quality while stirring in a Celtic seam.
REVIEWS
WINNER: Herald Angel 2000
"Both as an actress and a singer she is really rather special, an artist whose work is to be savoured and treasured for the range, depth and sensitivity it reveals." (Edmonton Sun, Canada)
"Her brilliant timing challenging all comedians out in Fringeland" (The Herald)
"Terry Neason's voice swoops like a Stuka, has the range of a B52 and delivers with devastating force." (The Sunday Tribune, Dublin)
"She's funny and powerful, young and old, tough and vulnerable; and her singing is dark and bright, taunting and tender, plaintive and radiant. I love her" (Financial Times)
"She has an enormously powerful voice, but one which can also be seductively soft. It grabs and engulfs you. You can't escape. You don't want to." (Time Out)
"She is fantastically talented, her voice is rich, versatile, huge, raw and quiveringly beautiful" (The Scotsman)
"Neason's cabaret performance is sassy, theatrical, big-voiced and big-hearted... Her vocal range and versatility is astounding" (The Scotsman)
"She croons them, she caresses them, she belts them. She puts her voice at the service of your most private feelings and she turns the heart around." (The Herald)
"Stunning star is pure poetry in motion" (Edinburgh Evening News)
"Neason is a treasure, she has the voice of an angel and a low range that will leave you awestruck. Versatile doesn't seem to say enough." (The Journal, Canada)
Terry Neason (Performer)
Scots born singer/actress Terry Neason began her career in political musical theatre in her native Glasgow and touring in the UK, Europe and Scandinavia with 7:84 Theatre Company and Wildcat Stage Productions.
An accomplished actress of stage, television and film playing Anna opposite Ian McDiarmid, in The Almeida's production of The Government Inspector, Top Dog opposite Lily Savage and Maggie 'The Freak' Kirkpatrick in the London West-End Production Prisoner Cell Block H The Musical, and Piaf, the legendary French chanteuse.
Her recent screen work includes The Bill, Casualty, The sci-fi Lexx, the 15 part series of BBC's My Barmy Aunt Boomerang, and Hugh Hudson's film My Life So Far.
Terry, now domiciled in London divides her time between acting and her one-woman shows of comedy and songs.
Terry is known for her versatility, and performs in many genres, as well as her own compositions, performing Jazz, Folk, Rock, Pop, Soul, Country and Blues. The spoken words come in the form of dramatised poetry and comedic monologues, from such talented writers as, John Hegley, Brian Patten, Liz Lochhead, Jackie Kay, W.B Yeats and many more.
Her shows Words Of Pride And Passion, Crying For The Moon, Wild 'n' Wet Ones, Screams And Kisses and Celtic Kisses, Slaps and Tickles have taken her around the globe from Edinburgh Festival Fringe awards and 5 star reviews, to wowing capacity audiences in Raffles Hotel, Singapore, as part of the 1999 Singapore International Comedy Festival and Vancouver, Canada in 2000.
She is at present touring her new show Slaps 'n' Tickles, which consists of a Cabaret of Celtic songs and words of Wit 'n' Wisdom!
Brian Prentice (Musical Director)
Her Musical Director, for the past 6 years has been Brian Prentice, who is at present, also working with Scottish Ballet. With M.A. honours in Music and Physics, Terry says that Brian is the brains in the outfit...and he just has to agree!!!!
