TOO FRIENDLY THEATRE COMPANY

This year marks one of festivity for the Too Friendly Theatre Company as they are celebrating their 20th Anniversary. Formed in 1999 out of the remains of a different theatre group whose director deemed "too friendly" to work with, the Southport based troupe have delighted audiences in the local area for the last 20 years... In 1998 Cliff Gillies and Helen Haygarth, our founders, were members of a different theatre troupe. The company were in the last stages of rehearsal when the director decided to sack the entire cast and crew! The reasons were financial, but on the last day with the company the director complained that the current cast were, in his words, "too bloody friendly" to be actors... "It is an exciting year for us," Helen Haygarth, the Too Friendly's second founding member admits. "We have been together for a long time and, although new members come and go, the core values of the Too Friendly endure. We want to give the audience a good time and enjoy ourselves doing it...

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