Mad Cow Productions

October  2011 Ray Cooney and John Chapman's

Not Now Darling

Just under 1000 people saw and enjoyed this great farce.With a naughty nimble script, that is a constant stream of lies and double-entendres, mistaken identities, accusations, recriminations, cover ups and of course confusion a hilarious night out was had by all! This plot saw a series of scantily clad women, a mobster, a suspicious wife, a philandering husband and some misguided shoppers meander their way through a furiously funny two hours of comic mayhem!

October 1st 2011

A Moosical Evening

The MT company at play! Something for everyone we hoped and from the positive feed back we succeeded.

We all enjoyed this super venue and the warm reception of our core audience.

May 2011 Mel Brookes New Musical  

The Producers

Winner of a record 12 Tony awards The Producers was MCP's most ambitious production to date. But what a success!! Our most commented on show to date, this web site was inundated with fabulous feed back!. Nearly 2,000 people laughed till they cried at this outrageous, hilarious, teeny bit shocking, off the wall, but never, never boring masterpiece of Musical Theatre. With its 200 hundred costumes, fabulous set and first class performances once again MCP proved that to quote Max "they can do it!".

September - October 2010 Ray Cooney and John Chapman's Move Over Mrs Markham

Once again MCP presented a high quality production this time of the famous Whitehall comedy Move over Mrs Markham an hilarious farce with all that genre’s characteristics well displayed.

As you would expect there is much going in and out of many doors (with split second timing), many mistaken and assumed identities, unwanted visitors, misunderstandings and improbable situations, exaggerated characters, and slapstick elements all used for humorous effect.

In short an evening full of laughter that you, our audience said you thoroughly enjoyed.

April 2010 Stephen Sondheim's A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

Sentimental Cows that we are for our debut in Theatre Severn we couldn't resist revisiting the fantastic piece that started it all off. As we were Sold Out before we opened it seems that you, our audience, loved it too!

April 2009 Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft's 'Allo 'Allo

Who could forget the hugely popular, hilarious, long-running sitcom by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft which was broadcast from 1982 to 1992.

Set during the Second World War in occupied France this stage version takes place in and around the small French café owned by René Artois, while the harassed proprietor fights his own distinctive version of war. With the German Army in residence at his bar, he risks his neck to aid the Resistance by hiding two British airmen. As if this wasn't enough, René has also got involved in hiding a priceless painting in a knockwurst sausage, which even now is being sniffed out by the Gestapo. But René's real problem is his wife, Edith, and what she will do to him when she finds out about the affairs he is having with two sexy waitresses!

The stage play keeps all your favourite characters and their distinctive humour so come on down for an evening of laughter.

April 2008 Michael Frayne’s Noises Off

Opening in London in 1982, the play won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and ran until 1987 with five successive casts. The New York Times described it as the “funniest play ever written”, when it won the Tony Award for Best Play. In 2000, the National Theatre put on a revised version, to ecstatic reviews, that ran for two years. It is a sort of up market Brian Rix; remember those? Everything that can go wrong does, as the actors try desperately to hang on to their lines, their sanity and their clothes. Hilarious hijinks and mayhem ensue as the show tours the country and the players have to deal with their personal relationships while performing. As the tensions between the actors mount so does the humour, the pace, the slapstick and, of course, the laughter!

The previous two forays into the theatre were for the Shrewsbury Amateur Operatic Society for whom they produced, directed and choreographed Pirates and Millie. Please take a look at their website for details of other productions. Both shows were award nominated by the National Operatic and Dramatic Association for Best Production in their respective years and helped to cement Alex and Lisa’s reputation for successful high quality productions.

March 2007 for the SAOS Thoroughly Modern Mille

Following its success on Broadway, where it won the Tony Award for Best Musical, the SAOS was proud to present Thoroughly Modern Millie. Based on the Julie Andrews film of the same name this colourful show is packed with energy, vitality and fun. From the first note to the final curtain, the jazzy, bluesy, energetic new score provides the perfect dose of escapism, into a world of glitz, glamour, frisky flappers, financial high flyers and comic criminal activities.

March 2006 for the SAOS Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penance

Wacky, irreverent and as entertaining today as it was when it first opened, Pirates takes the audience swaggering and swashbuckling through an hilarious farce of sentimental, soft hearted pirates, bumbling policemen, two hopelessly star-crossed lovers, a bevy of husband-hungry sisters, and an eccentric, pompous Major-General, all morally bound to the often-ridiculous dictates of honour and duty.

The beauty, wit and whimsy of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic score is stuffed full of memorable tunes; Poor Wandering One, I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General, A Policeman’s Lot Is Not A Happy One, With Cat-Like Tread and For I Am A Pirate King to name a few. This colourful, comic masterpiece is one of the most enduringly popular, enchanting and best-loved pieces of English musical theatre of all time.

April 2004 Sondheim’s A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

This famous musical farce, winner of six Tony Awards on Broadway, is simply one of the best musical comedies ever. Spun with more plot threads than a bowl of spaghetti, it is peopled by a group of delightfully unsavoury characters; a hen pecked father with a shrewish wife, an innocent son, manipulating servants, courtesans as neighbours, a befuddled old man who lost his children to pirates, and the Roman Army. All are drawn into the confusion as this mounting side splitting comedy plot unwinds. With a Sondheim score to complement the mayhem the audience was guaranteed an enjoyable evening’s entertainment.