by Sue Rippon
Thurs 30th Nov to Sat 2nd Dec 2017
Wedmore Village Hall
| Cast: | |
|---|---|
| Larry, the Director | Alan Philps |
| Romeo, the Principal Boy | Tom Creswick |
| Juliet, the Principal Girl | Maisie Lewis |
| Juliet’s Nurse | David Eccles |
| Tybalt, the Villain | David Hopkins |
| Friar Laurence | Dorothy Wright |
| Capulet, Juliet’s father | David Cole |
| Lady Capulet, Juliet’s mother | Andrea Brenner |
| Mercutio, friend to Romeo | Ren Fayers |
| Benvolio, friend to Romeo | Libby Tucker |
| Paris, A County in Verona, suitor to Juliet | Clarissa Dawkins |
| Margaret, Pendon Players’ Stage Manager | Jendy Weekes |
| Alistair, Pendon Players’ Technical Manager | Stephen Farnie |
| Joe, Pendon Players’ Assistant Technical Manager | Hal Farnie |
| Bridget, Pendon Players’ Most Senior Female Member | Valerie Langley |
| Roger, Pendon Players’ Most Senior Male Member | Peter Langley |
| Penelope, Pendon Players’ Chairman | Andrea Brenner |
| Abigail, Pendon Players’ Leading Lady | Venetia Hopkins |
| Bernard Lorne-Messiter, a largely absent Pendon Players Member | David Cole |
| Maureen, the Pendon Village Hall cleaner | Alisa Creaser |
| Balthasar, a messenger | Matilda Friend |
| Apothecary | Venetia Hopkins |
| Wayne, an auditioner for the Pendon Players | Wayne Hahn |
| Woman, an auditioner for the Pendon Players | Ren Fayers |
| Barry, an auditioner for the Pendon Players | Eli Tinney |
| John Tinney, an auditioner for the Pendon Players | John Tinney |
| Abe, John’s son | Abe Tinney |
| Crab, a dog | Habibi |
| Juliet’s balcony | Matilda Friend, Hebe Bryan, Honor Farnie, Clarissa Dawkins |
| Montagues and Capulets | Libby Tucker, Clarissa Dawkins, Matilda Friend, Honor Farnie, Hebe Bryan, Abe Tinney, Eli Tinney |
| A young citizen | Matilda Friend |
| ‘Lear’, a largely somnolent Pendon Players Member | David Cole |
| Creative and Production Team | |
|---|---|
| Director | Sue Rippon |
| Producer | Sarah Ford |
| Musical Director | Nikki Hewson |
| Set and Special Effects Designers | Geoff Dickson, Mike Rippon, Philip Hamlin |
| Lighting Designer | Mike Rippon |
| Sound Designer | Phil Butterworth |
| Stage Manager | Anne Richards |
| Lighting and Sound Assistant | Hal Farnie |
| Choreographer | Valerie Langley |
| Costume Designer and Wardrobe Mistress | Sue Burton |
| Costume makers | Elizabeth Coulter, Valerie Langley, Margaret Farnie, Sue Burton |
| Hair Designer | Cathy Butterworth |
| Make-up Designer | Judy Phillpotts |
| Hair and Make up team | Judy Phillpotts, Suzanne Metters, Lesley Luke, Shirley Avis, Margaret Sim, Jenny George, Jane Nisbet, Jean Windridge, Anne Payne, Tanya Mills |
| Props Designer and Manager | Pam Duke |
| Construction Manager | Steve George |
| Set construction | Steve George, Martin Horton, Louis Crooks, Mike Murkin, Greg Phillpotts, James Whitmore |
| Assistant Stage Managers | Helen Richardson, Tori Whitehead, Sarah Slevin, Louis Crooks |
| Scene painters | Barbara Horton, Chris Fayers, Martin Horton, Pam Duke, Peter Duke, Sarah Ford, Anne Richards |
| Video Director | Tristan Elliot Palmer |
| Video Cameraman | Jack Ventures |
| Video clapper loader | Hal Farnie |
| Box Office Manager | Jendy Weekes |
| Publicity | Sue Rippon, Mike Rippon |
| Programme Designer | Mike Rippon |
| Programme advertising sales | Peter Duke |
| Poster Designers | Tony Phillips-Smith, Mike Rippon |
| Prompt | Caroline Tollworthy |
| Green Room Granny | Holly Cole |
| Front of House Manager | Simon Tomes |
| Front of House team | Anna Knight, Mike Edmunds, Penny Edmunds, Jonathan Frankpitt, Val Godfrey |
| Bar Manager | John Sanderson |
| Bar team | Peter Duke, Tony Edmunds, Bill Litherland |
Director’s Note
When I changed my name by deed-poll many years ago, to Laurence Olivier, I had high hopes for my theatrical career. If things had worked out differently, I could have been Artistic Director of The National Theatre, or of the Royal Shakespeare Company. But it was not to be, and one mustn’t allow oneself to become bitter.
In many ways my time directing with The Pendon Players has proved richly rewarding. I have on occasion plucked livestock from fields, dishcloths from barmaids, and oily rags from mechanics, transforming them into stars of the glittering world of am-dram. Some have even thanked me.
This production has presented particular difficulties, most notably the challenge of transforming the sublimely poetic silk purse of Romeo & Juliet into the soi-disant sow’s ear of a community panto. It has been a Stakhanovite struggle, but I dare to hope that we have pulled it off. Do, please, try to stay until the end. For my sake.
Thank you.
Larry Olivier – Director
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