29 November 2007 to 6 January 2008
Directed by Joyce Branagh
Designed by Keith Orton
Lighting by John Harris
Music by Stu Barker
Sound by Dave Glover
Choreographer Nikki Woollaston
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Jack And The Beanstalk

by Joyce Branagh

Cast

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    Richard Ashton

    Theatre credits include: Blue Remembered Hills and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Heaton Park); Arthur King Of The Britons, Dracula The Bllod Count (Feelgood Productions); One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (New Victoria Theatre, Newcastle-Under-Lyme); The Adventures Of Robin Hood (Tobacco Factory); Caught In The Net (ITC Long Beach); Cinderella (Theatre Royal, Lincoln); Lovers At Versailles (Laguna Playhouse); Jack And The Beanstalk, The Three Musketeers, A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, Bouncers, Frankenstein (York Theatre Royal); Aladdin (Waterman's Arts); Robin Hood and Babes In The Wood (Wimbledon Theatre).
    Television credits include: The Basil Brush Show; New Tricks; The Hollow Men; Father Can't Cope; The New Adventures of Robin Hood.
    Film credits include: Calendar Girls; Wondrous Oblivion; The Parole Officer; The Fifth Element.
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    Peter Holdway

    Theatre credits include: The Witches, Peter Pan, The Wind In The Willows (Birmingham Rep); Treasure Island (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry); Romeo And Juliet (Greenwich Theatre); Travels With My Aunt, Bouncers (Salisbury Playhouse); Faust Parts l and ll, The Painter Of Dishonour, The Relapse (Royal Shakespeare Company).
    Television credits include: The Bill; The Hogfather; Sooty.
    Film credits include: Hello You.
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    Tania Mathurin

    Theatre credits include: Carmen Jones (Royal Festival Hall); Fame (Arena Theatre); Jerry Springer The Opera (National Theatre & West End); The Lion King (Germany); Half A Sixpence (West Yorkshire Playhouse); Les Miserables, Doctor Doolittle, Martin Guerre, Me And My Girl (West End).
    Short Film: Paranoia.
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    Andrea Miller

    Theatre credits include: Postcards From God (Jermyn Street Theatre); Fiddler On The Roof (Aberystwyth Arts Centre); Flower Drum Song (Sadlers Wells); Whatever Happened To Baby Jane, Men Should Weep, Private Lives (Citizens Theatre, Glasgow); Into The Woods, Sweeney Todd (English Theatre Hong Kong); Cabaret, Sylivia, Blithe Spirit (Hong Kong); Arms And The Man, The Cherry Orchard, The Snow Queen, Twelfth Night (Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh); Deathtrap (Frankfurt Cafe Theatre); Shirley Valentine (Duke Of York's Theatre).
    Television credits include: Days Of The Triffids; Frankenstein's Baby; Gunfight At The JK Corrall; Scotch & Wry; The Lost Tribe.
    Film credits include: Edward ll; Greystoke.
    Radio credits include: Man In Her Life; The Pope's Wife; Watching Waiters.

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    Christopher Robert

    Most recent theatre includes: Prospero in Taming The Tempest at Salisbury Playhouse; Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Merchant/Ballad Singer in The Comedy Of Errors and Baptista in The Taming Of The Shrew all for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Last summer he played Friar Lawrence in Romeo And Juliet and Snout in A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the British Shakespeare Company. Previously he played Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing and Toby Belch in Twelfth Night for the British Shakespeare Company. Other credits include: Polonius in Hamlet with Mad Dogs & Englishmen; another Toby Belch in Twelfth Night at Hoghton Tower Shakespeare Festival in Lancashire. He was Inspector Goole in An Inspector Calls (C’est Tous Theatre Company).
    He wrote and toured his one-man show Not A Job For A Grown Man.
    He has twice played the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard Of Oz once at The Lowry in Salford and at The Neptune in Liverpool.
    TV and film: Linda Green; Cage; Defender.
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    Dale Superville

    Theatre credits include: most recently the role of Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops To Conquer at the Mercury Theatre, Colchester. Other work includes: Wishee Washee in Aladdin at Watford Palace; Ariel in the UK tour of Return To The Forbidden Planet (Basingstoke Haymarket). Other credits include: the role of Fruitella in Cinderella (Watford Palace Theatre); George in The Knight Of The Burning Pestle (Colchester Mercury/Barbican Theatre); Toad in The Wind In The Willows (Oldham Coliseum); Simply Heavenly (Ambassador Theatre Group); Rumplestiltskin (Unicorn Theatre); Oh What A Lovely War, Dick Whittington (Colchester Mercury Theatre); Epsom Downs (Nuffield Theatre); Doc Faust (Forest Forge); Mother Goose (Salisbury Playhouse); Pinocchio (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Tom’s Midnight Garden (London and New York); Cinderella (Salisbury Playhouse); Big Nose (Coventry Belgrade Theatre); Having A Ball, Fings Ain’t What They Used To Be and Of Mice And Men (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Aladdin (Salisbury Playhouse); Puss In Boots, The Last Noo-Noo, Stardog, Charlotte’s Web and The Patchwork Quilt (Polka Theatre); Babies (Palace Theatre, Westcliffe); You’re Thinking About Doughnuts (Nottingham Playhouse); Jungle Book (Redgrave Theatre, Farnham); A Song From The Sea (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich) and A Lesson To Forgive (The Man In The Moon).
    Television credits include: Tick Tock (Big Heart Media/Disney); The World At Their Feet (Disney Channel); Bill’s New Frock (Channel Four) and Rainbow Days – 2 series (ITV).
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