Dollybirds

2012 ‘Gone In 20’ commission by Remarkable Productions, Watch This Space, National Theatre and Stockton International Riverside Festival.

Some time in the late 70’s, Larry and Nan Partington, of Rotherham, South Yorkshire discovered 3 baby girls on their doorstep. They’ve been there ever since.

Due to a series of unexpected events and coincidences the girls recognise Dolly Parton as their biological mother. They live in hope that one day she will return for them. Rotherham Borough Council now intends to extend the A6109 threatening their childhood home with demolition.

Campaigning to save 95 Joshua Street, they believe that as the unauthenticated but entirely genuine daughters of Dolly Parton, English Heritage should issue their home with a blue plaque and see it preserved as a place of cultural significance.

Singing their hearts out, in the face of adversity, they generously share their fantastic repertoire of acappella, vocal harmony arrangements at any opportunity. After all, “If you want to see the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain…”

Performances include:

• Glastonbury Festival 2014

• Fuse Medway Festival 2013

• Sunderland Live 2013

• Glastonbury Festival 2013

• St. Helens 2013

• Darlington Summer Spectacular 2013

• Bolton Food Festival 2013

• Huddersfield Festival of Light 2013

• Watch This Space 2012, The National Theatre, London.

• Stockton International Riverside Festival 2012

• Picture (London 2012), City Hall, London 2012.