1. Wot?
No Fish!!
Danny Braverman

2. In 1926 the newly married shoemaker Ab Solomons
brought his wages home for his wife Celie.
With a little doodle on
the packet…

3. From that point on every week
Ab drew a cartoon for Celie.
Always drawing her with a red
nose.
She had a cold the day they
married.

4. They were joined by their sons Jeff and Larry.

5. And Ab created a chronicle of every day events and major
milestones.

6. After retirement, Ab kept up his cartoons.
Now in full colour.
55 years and
3000 cartoons

7. Ab’s cartoons show the ups and downs of marriage …

8. sometimes saucy …

9. sometimes sad …

10. money worries …

11. the war…

12. Celie’s declining health …

13. Larry moving into an institution.

14. A family immersed in Jewish life.

15. Ab drew his last cartoon in 1982 – the year that Celie died.
Still with a
red nose.

16. Ab’s son, Jeff Solomons,
died in 2009,
bequeathing his Dad’s
cartoons to his nearest
family.
Danny Braverman is Ab’s
great-nephew.
Danny is a storyteller
who – by a remarkable
coincidence - lives in the
same house Ab grew up
in.
This is Ab’s mother in the
garden of that house.

17. And this is Danny
pestering his great-
uncle to show him a
saucy cartoon.

18. Wot? No Fish!!
opens up Ab Solomons'
unique art for the first
time to the public.
In the Autumn and Winter of
2012/13 Danny Braverman
developed the show by trying
it out on different audiences of
all ages and backgrounds.
In Summer 2013, the show
will be launched at the
Edinburgh Festival before
touring nationally and
internationally.

19. Audience reactions
"I cried. I feel like this afternoon has
played a significant part in my life - it
hit me like a train.”
"Totally overwhelming”
"Touching and beautifully directed ... it
should go global.”
"Nobody tells stories like Danny.
Nobody.”
“Could be as important as Pepys diary
one day”

20. "The start of something huge. A jaw-dropping and hugely
moving story.”
Mark Billingham (Author)
'Powerful, authentic, moving and very funny”
Rachel Lichtenstein (Author)
“Superb. Moving, intricate, storytelling.”
Sarah Brigham – Artistic Director Derby Theatres
“It works on so many levels: storytelling, theatre, family,
immigrant communities, history, the war, how life was, mental
health, memory. biography, the ‘art’ of interpretation, what
does one’s life add up to in the end.”
Mike Alfreds (Theatre Director)

21. Writer/Performer: Danny Braverman
Director: Nick Philippou
Production Manager: Simon Lyall
Animator: Wallace McDougall
For further information
info@ wotnofish.com
www.wotnofish.com
07958 928623