JACKIE ROSSER
Contact: jackie@savoytheatre.net
Job Title
Props and Costume Manager/Technical Assistant/Everything!
Nicknames
Mother, JR, Jack, Jax
Age
Old enough to know better!
Duties
Opening windows, hider and then finder of tools and equipment, shopping, chauffeur, under-stage crawling, plastering, painting, sweeping up, refuse disposal, cementing, general dogsbody, prop-making, costume collector, Agony Aunt, filling in of holes that Dan has made for cables, anything that needs doing!
Significant Others
Husband Ray, Sons Gareth and Iain, Daughter-in-Law Sian, Grandsons Ben and Tomi,
Dell the dog.
Hobbies
Theatre, DIY, photography, internet, reading, scrapbooking, card making, prop-making, charity shopping, car boot sales etc
Favourite Food
Chinese, Indian, pasta, curries
Favourite Sayings
"No worries."
Favourite TV Programmes, Films and DVDs
Documentaries, the BBC News, Pointless, The Taking of Pelham 123, Das Boat
Favourite Music
Scottish Anthem, Jazz, Chris de Burgh, Big Band, anything really!
Things I Hate
Spitting, litter, mobile phones, bad manners, food waste, rudeness, temper tantrums!
Best Moment When Building the Theatre
The fifteen minutes following the test show back in April 2015. Everyone was on a total high, and the atmosphere was brilliant!
Worst Moment When Building the Theatre
Cleaning the stick off of the vinyl dancefloor before installing it!
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my practical jokes
I'm known for my practical jokes in and around the theatre, such as adding googley eyes to anything and everything and not telling anyone! Drawing faces on objects, sticking rubber slugs to the kitchen wall and making faces out of provisions (see photo opposite).
My Heroes
British Forces, Rescue Services, Ben, Gareth, Iain, Dan and Hayley