• Get Me the Urgent Biscuits

  • An Assistant's Adventures in Theatreland
  • By: Sweetpea Slight
  • Narrated by: Sweetpea Slight
  • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
  • Unabridged Audiobook
  • Release date: 12-31-17
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Orion

Regular price: $21.31

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Publisher's Summary

At 18, after moving to London with dreams of becoming an actress, an impressionable girl who paints freckles on her face begins work experience in a West End theatre company. In between mail-outs and making cups of coffee, she meets the formidable producer Thelma Holt. Within a fortnight Thelma has stolen her, cancelled her audition for RADA, sent her to evening classes to learn to type, organised a miniscule salary and renamed her.

From that moment she becomes Sweetpea. Her days are spent in an eccentric office where Alan Rickman or Vanessa Redgrave might pop in at any moment. Evenings are filled with the adrenaline of an opening-night performance or the chatter of a smart restaurant where casting for the next production is discussed.

Existing somewhere between glamour and penury, Sweetpea finds herself surrounded by dynamic personalities and struggling to trust her own creative instincts. Over the years her apprenticeship takes in unusual demands, misbehaving actors, divinely inspired directors and a hot-air balloon ride with British theatre's finest.

Get Me the Urgent Biscuits is a keenly observed memoir about the vanishing world of London's West End in the 1980s and 1990s, in which a young woman is swept into the orbit of a theatrical impresario. Shrewd, poignant and irresistibly funny, above all it is a coming-of-age story about the search for independence and an ode to the beguiling nature of theatre.

Read by Sweetpea Slight.

©2017 Sweetpea Slight (P)2017 Orion Publishing Group

Critic Reviews

"A sparkling memoir full of charm and wit." (Nina Stibbe)
"Anyone who loves the theatre will love this book." (Zoë Wanamaker)

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    3 out of 5 stars
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  • Colin McIntosh
  • 04-25-18

Can’t decide if I enjoyed

The stage stories are interesting but the author is completely bizarre and has every issue you can imagine and I found I didn’t care. I wanted to hear the theatre stories and more of those as these areas are really fascinating. Also she’s quite a monotone reader but if nothing else it’s worth a punt.

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars
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    5 out of 5 stars
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    5 out of 5 stars
  • John Pincham
  • 02-01-18

Delicious biscuits!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

People are strange and extraordinary creatures and Sweetpea explores their foibles with humour, compassion and just a tiny pinch of stage blood.

What did you like best about this story?

Being able to dip in and out, albeit with increasing frequency.

What does Sweetpea Slight bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Love hearing her humour come to life.

Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Joy!

Any additional comments?

A right rollicking romp.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful