{"id":263,"date":"2024-02-09T23:18:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T23:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/?page_id=263"},"modified":"2024-02-09T23:19:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T23:19:23","slug":"howard-and-mimi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/projects\/howard-and-mimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard and Mimi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n

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Howard and Mimi
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written by Caroline Gold
directed by Chris Neville-Smith
performed by Jack Feeney and Stephanie Cubello
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Oh my God! You’re deflating!”<\/em><\/div>
“I’m hissing, you moron!”
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When Nick and Jane move in together, a bright future awaits. But this story isn’t about them, it’s about Howard and Mimi, who also move in together. Howard is a boisterous hound and Mimi is a catty diva. Can they ever be friends, or will they always fight like cat and dog?<\/p>\n\n\n

Howard and Mimi<\/em> is play I’d been trying to stage for ten years. Various attempts to do this previously had fallen foul of casting problems or amateur dramatics politics, and when I saw an opportunity to do this for the launch of the inaugural Durham Fringe, this almost suffered a similar fate. One drop-out due to catching Coronavirus, a recasting, and then my other actor also testing positive and having to self-isolate for most of the remaining period, we were left with days to put something on. But my actors rallied together and we somehow managed to get to a near-professional standard in a week and a half.<\/p>\n\n\n

For the benefit of anyone who needs catching up, Howard is a dog and Mimi is a cat, played by – in Caroline Gold’s words – “the human embodiments of the animals they represent”. Yes, really. Trust me on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Gallery<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Past Performances
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City Theatre <\/strong>for Durham Fringe: <\/strong>28th – 31st July 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Credits<\/h3>\n\n

written by Caroline Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n

directed by Chris Neville-Smith<\/strong> <\/p>\n

featuring:<\/p>\n

Jack Feeney<\/strong> as Howard<\/p>\n

Stephanie Cubello <\/strong>as Mimi<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-263","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/263\/revisions\/270"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisnevillesmith.info\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}