Events Diary
2024
Our next productionDid you know?
- Our 36th production and the fourth time we've produced "HMS Pinafore". As on all but one of the the previous productions (1954), this was a double bill with "Trial by Jury".
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HMS Pinafore suffers from a surprisingly weak libretto. The basic plot (baby changing motif) is droll enough, but Little Buttercup's revelation that she mixed up Ralph and Captain Corcoran followed by the latter pair immediately appearing briskly on stage already in uniforms of Captain and humble seaman respectively, takes some explanation.
Also, for the Captain to be Josephine's father and Ralph the young suitor to be mixed up in babyhood would require Ralph and the Captain to be at least middle-aged!
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Producer/Director : Steven Greenwood
Musical Director : Michael Clare
Cast
| THE RT HON SIR JOSEPH PORTER, KCB: | Malcolm Parkinson |
| CAPTAIN CORCORAN : (Commanding HMS Pinafore) | Eric Tester |
| RALPH RACKSTRAW : (Able Seaman) | Nicholas Lindop |
| DICK DEADEYE: (Able Seaman) | Chris Sowerby |
| BILL BOBSTAY: (Boatswain's Mate) | Robert Thurman |
| BOB BECKETT : (Carpenter's Mate) | Keith Horner |
| TOM TUCKER: (Midshipmite) | Lyndsay Jackson |
| JOSEPHINE : (The Captain's Daughter) | Sandra Chapman |
| COUSIN HEBE: (Sir Joseph's First Cousin) | Margaret Croft |
| MRS CRIPPS : (Little Buttercup) | Margaret Lister |
| Marines: : | Andrew Fisher, Robert Hardcastle |
First Lord's Sisters, his Cousins, his Aunts:
Alison Boden, Marie Bullock, Jill Carline, Marilyn Cooper, Paula Craven, Jane Harmer, Marjorie Harrap, Jayne Lindley, Mary Ludford,Irene Richardson, Stephanie Roe, Joan Rumbold, Alison Sowerby, Kath Thurman, Mary Troy, Dorothy Whitworth
Sailors:
Keith Cooper, Frank Croft, Steven Greenwood, Peter Newell, Vernon Newman, Barry Pearson, John Whitehead, Michael Whitehead
Dancer: Donna Howgate