Harvest Festival: Oxfordshire and Norfolk, September 2011
Harvest is a celebration of food and music for friends and families. For this year's festival Teatime collaborated with experimental caterers du jour Blanch and Shock to bring some unusual, edible fun to both festival sites, in the forms of a mobile edible garden, a wandering apothecary and a liquid nitrogen ice cream stand.
The 39 Steps: Criterion Theatre, London July 2011
Another collaboration with experimental caterers Blanch and Shock, this time to promote The 39 Steps to ticket sales representatives. We created a Hitchcock themed, theatrical, walk-through eating experience, taking guests on a tour of the public and not so public nooks and crannies of the beautiful Criterion Theatre. Courses included Dragons Breath Popcorn in the bar, glowing cocktails in the cloakroom, smoked fish in smoke filled kilner jars as park of a picnic in the Royal Box, a tower of roasted birds consumed against a backdrop of screaming crows on a misty stage, flambeed ice cream and 'poisoned' green sugar cubes that fizzed, crackled and spat when dropped into champagne.
Tainted Love: The White Blackbird at Stoke Place, February 11th 2011
Another fabulous country house party from Teatime Production and Stoke Place, this time in honour of Saint Valentine himself. Featuring an apothecary bar, the garden of Eden, lectures in the amorous arts, speed relationships and a broken hearted ballroom among other delights.
Bal Argentee: The White Blackbird at Stoke Place, October 15th 2010
Another fabulous country house party from Teatime Production and Stoke Place, this time inspired by the society photographs of Cecil Beaton. Featuring a Mylar atelier, silver screened cinema, stargazing tours, Busby Berkeley chorus line and a starlight ballroom among other delights.
Experimental Food Society Spectacular: The Brickhouse, September 25th 2010
Teatime Production and other members of the Experimental Food society took part in the annual Spectacular. Teatime Production will both contribute to and produce an exhibition of outlandish and experimental food followed by an extraordinary banquet finale at which diners will feast on the edible artwork whilst enjoying a night of performance.
Cake Britain: The Future Gallery, August 26th - 29th 2010
Creative bakers exhibited edible work and invited visitors to scoff the art at 'Cake Britain', an alternative art show sponsored by Tate & Lyle, and created by the Mad Artists' Tea Party. Teatime Production helped to get rid of the leftovers with a giant 'cakeapult' for members of the public to fire.
Giant Picnic: July 2010, UKTV Food / APR Consultancy
Teatime Production was commissioned to produce 12:1 scale models of a disposable cup, paper plate and napkin for a promotional 'Giant Picnic' for UKTV Food by APR Consultancy.
Forest: July 2010, The Creators Project/ Karl Sadler
Teatime produced Karl Sadler's contribution to the London leg of the Creators Project exhibition series - an indoor forest with specially commissioned soundtrack by band Esben and the Witch complete with programmed, sound reactive lighting.
Childhood: June 2010, The White Blackbird at Stoke Place
Bringing back the country house party in grand style, the June edition of the White Blackbird was themed 'Childhood' in homage to a legendary party thrown by the Bright Young Things in the inter-war years, which saw society matrons arriving in baby carriages pushed by their butlers.
Entertainments included Miss Balloniverse, candy trees, cocktails served in baby bottles, a cardboard crawl maze, the party game olympics, a princess and the pea story bed, a secret den bar in the grounds and a petting zoo.
Rule Britannia: April 2010, The White Blackbird at Stoke Place
A celebration of St George's Day, Rule Britannia featured Bulldog sponsored Gin Fountains, lessons in the Terry Thomas school of Woomanship, a room sized music box complete with the perfect English Rose, Fleet Weddings performed by the Lay Greys, music from , the Dixie Ticklers followed by tutoring in the quadrille, a quack doctor on call, drag tarot, elocution lessons, duelling businessmen, a Teapigs sponsored tea bar, a colonial treasure hunt and lawn games (for anyone who was still bored).
Tweed: January 2010, The White Blackbird at Stoke Place
Teatime Production's interpretation of a hunting, shooting fishing tweedy country house party went down a storm with the country and city set alike. Guests were invited to confess their sins by candlelight in the confessional portrait booth, sit around the enormous bonfire toasting marshmallows, join in the piano singalong after the whisky tasting, solve the murder mystery to win dinner for two, have their ancestral portrait taken by a noted fashion photographer, do some boating in the ballroom, be thoroughly haunted by the Lady Greys, take part in the human steeplechase and follow it up with the scottish reeling class (completed with kilted bagpipers) and - should they have the stomach - sample Johnny's filthy super 8 collection.
'Time for Tea' tour: 2009, Dunhill/ Piece of Cake, Germany
Teatime produced an aptly named 'Time for Tea' tour commissioned by Piece of Cake on behalf of Dunhill cigarettes at the end of 2009. The tour took in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin over the course of two months. Teatime produced a traditional cabaret stage show with a twist featuring silent films with live accompaniment, chorus lines, modern mime, a beatboxing flautist and the smallest theatre in the world.
Colourscape: 2009, The White Blackbird at Stoke Place
Featuring a panoply of diversions, a plethora of delights (in short more entertainment than you could shake a heavily jewelled stick at):
"Rainbow hued performances... explore to find them... A party within a party - 1950's cocktail lounge with rainbow drinks menu, Technicolour slumber party cinema, Dance classes from the past: learn to cha-cha-cha from 1940s recorded lessons, Russella predicts your horrible fate, Swinging music from Johnny Chrome and Silver and Daniel the Dandy in the ballroom, Gourmet jelly feast, Inflatable installation in the grounds and a Giant balloon playroom."
Futurist Aerobanquet: 2009, The Olde Bell, Hurley
'Ladies and Gentlemen, on behalf of the captain and the entire crew, I would like to welcome you aboard the White Blackbird's Futurist Aerobanquet, a non stop service from London to The Olde Bell, Hurley"
Check in for our most extraordinary Futurist Aerobanquet, produced and co-created by Teatime Production in collaboration with Bompas and Parr and the Dhillon Group, featuring a menu co-curated by the Olde Bell's Tony Albarno in a dining experience to celebate the 100th anniversary of the Futurist movement.
Grab your passport and board our airport transfer complete with stewardess and pilot at a central London pickup spot. Enjoy the on board entertainment - A Matter of Life and Death - while travel visas and tickets are distributed.
Passengers will disembark to be greeted with Futurist cocktails before passing through security (amply staffed by over enthusiastic air stewardesses). Visa stamping, ticket inspection and security checks will ensue, including a metal detector coat check: swap your belongings for a Futurist cocktail. Passengers will be offered canapes served from vintage luggage while queuing including a combination of black olives, fennel hearts and kumquats presented with corresponding flags of sandpaper, silk and velvet, accompanied by the sounds of airplanes overhead.
And this is before you're even seated.... the meal itself will feature a Futurist 'taster menu' in made to measure airplane trays, "Take off", a pork fuselage and a pudding served in a rather unorthodox manner. Let's just say you'd better have fastened your seatbelts properly.
After dinner the entertainment will continue with a DJ set from Johnny Chrome and Silver, an aeronautical Jazz Band and a high kicking Futurist chorus line of air stewardesses. At 2am you'll be tucked into your coach seats to be sped back to civilisation.
Spring Fling Pyjama Party: 2009, The White Blackbird at Stoke Place
The inaugural Stoke Place country house party by Teatime Production. Often copied but never equalled.
In the grounds.... Live lambs to bottle feed or simply count from the comfort of an outsize hammock while being lulled by an operatic Bo Peep
In the ballroom..... Johnny Chrome and Silver, Hitman Hearne and Danie Dandy DJ alongside identical twin singers Twin & Tonic, with their swing band
In the cinema.... Our programme of vintage films, which can be watched from the giant bed (with cocktail service so you don't have to move a muscle)
In the vyse room... A pillow fighting ring - knock ten bells out of your nearest and dearest in a rain of feathers
In the games room... all manner of diversions and amusements for those of a tactical bent, a theme which can be continued outside on the croquet lawn
In the bedrooms.... Fancy Chance, Millicent Binks and Ryan Styles show you What the Butler Saw, and Josh Knowles invites you to join him on a Journey to the Other Side during the witching hour
Other items of note.... an extraordinary midnight feast, Russella tells your fortune
Pop up Tea Shop: 2009, Cube PR, London
Teatime production created the inaugural installation for Cube PR's pop up shop space, a vintage tea shop lavishly wallpapered with hand made silk wallpaper from Fromental, displaying Anna Barlow ceramics and a selection of antiques.
The Zeppelin Club: 2008, The Slaughtered Lamb, London
Teatime Production created the Zeppelin Club - a Weimar era gentlemen's club - for the Slaughtered Lamb, Clerkenwell. The twist was that for girls to enter the club, they had to be disguised as men: any girl arriving out of disguise had a kohl moustache drawn on before being allowed in. Entertainment consisted of appropriately sleazy performance and music presented with tongue firmly in cheek.