|
The Passionettes are Dionne and Louise,
they
first met at college when they were both studying drama as
part of their degree. After graduating, they helped form a
local theatre company performing and choreographing plays
and musicals for local theatres and theatre in education
projects.
Shows include Cabaret, The musical, The Wizard of Oz,
Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo and Witchcraze
by Bryony Lavery. As The Passionettes they have appeared on
many venues including The Summer Pops festival at The Big
Top, Kings Dock; The Philharmonic Hall; The Liverpool Empire
Theatre; The Neptune Theatre Liverpool; New Brighton
Pavillion; Rhyl Pavillion; Nova Centre Prestatyn; The
Olympia; Pontins and many others. They are rated as one of
the best female duos in the region by audiences and
contemporaries.
Their philosophy Dionne says is, "we love people and we love
to entertain! What is the point of going on stage if you are
not going to connect with your audience? We work hard on
stage to draw the audience into our show...it would be easy
to just stand on stage sing a few standard songs and throw
in a couple of token dance moves but we wouldn't enjoy that.
We don't feel the term "duo" really describes what we
do....ours is a mini show. We put our heart and soul into
each performance and tackle songs that we think other female
artistes are not covering.
The girls do have a terrific on stage chemistry and
presence, which Louise puts down to two things, off stage,
we are great friends, and I think this spills over into our
stage act (could this be why people are always asking us are
we sisters?!). But as well, we do have the advantage of
having been theatre trained and I think this gives us a
professional edge." |