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The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew by Robert Bolt
Directed by James Hough
Performances: Tuesday 7th to Saturday 11th December and Tuesday 14th to Saturday 18th December, 7.30pm, and Saturday 11th, Sunday 12th and Saturday 18th December, 3pm, Bell Theatre
BSL Signed Performances: Wednesday 15th December, 7.30pm and Saturday 18th December, 3pm. BSL interpreter: Paul Michaels
This is not a pantomime, rather a play for children. Having successfully exterminated the weyr of dragons infesting the duchy, the Duke and his knights now wish to relax. However, our hero, Sir Oblong Fitz Oblong is not having any of this and demands that they should travel to unpleasant parts of the world to help the poor and needy. In order to avoid this, the Duke and his knights manipulate Oblong into taking on the mantle of a knight errant and despatch him to the dreaded Bolligrew Isles, where power is shared by the villainous Baron Bolligrew and a dreaded black dragon. In his quest to relieve the islands of Bolligrew’s tyranny and the dragon, Oblong encounters a host of characters including two talking magpies; peasants; Bolligrew’s evil henchman, Squire Blackheart; a Regius Professor of Wickedness, and many, many more. Mayhem ensues, including sword fighting and hellish sorcery, before the inevitable happy ending...well, for most of them, that is!
Cast
The Goodies
Storyteller - Alan Buckman
Duke - John Lyne
Sir Dashwood - Alice Harvey Lowe
Sir Digby Vayne-Trumpington - Stuart Grimwood
Sir Graceless Strongbody - Siobhan Campbell
Sir Percival Smoothely-Smoothe - Derek Dempsey
Sir Oblong Fitz Oblong - Charles Doyle
The Ducal Secretary, Squire Juniper - Malcolm Woodman
Captain Asquith - Kevin Leech
The Lord Mayor - Kevin Leech
Obidiah Bobblenob - Siobhan Campbell
Michael Magpie - Oliver Retter
The Children of Night Everlasting! The baddies
Jasper, 15th Baron Bolligrew - Stuart Draper
Squire Blackheart - Matt Moore
Men-at-Arms - Stuart Grimwood, Stevie Hughes, Malcolm Woodman
Mazeppa, personal assistant to Dr Moloch - Stevie Hughes
Dr Beelzebub Moloch - Gregory Thomas
Dragon - Gerard Johnson
The Peasants
Poor Cast
Katie Balme, Nina Glover Southworth, Kitty Judge, Betty Mayo, Seamus Mayo, Skye Williams
Needy Cast
Emilia Capitelli, Martine Harrison, Harry Lowe, Blake Mckenzie, Ella Ogan, Benjamin Thomas
For more details, please contact James Hough, Director, or Carole Coyne, Assistant director
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