Performance

Venue	Playhouse
	Also: Salberg Studio
Town	Salisbury
County	Wiltshire
From	7th December 2002
To	11th January 2003
When	Mon-Sat Mats and Eve performances.
Prices	From £9.00. To £13.50.
Playhouse (V923)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

Dick Whittington

Work:: Dick Whittington (S5912)

Pantomime about a boy and his cat who set off to London to make their fortune - usually with Dick's Brother (Idle Jack) and mother - there they usually meet Baron Fitzwarren and sail away to seek treasure. In some versions King Rat goes with them to steal the treasure, in others they reach a land infested with rats where they haven't heard of cats and Dick does a deal, returning home rich he becomes Lord Mayor of London. Based extremely loosely on a real person (Richard Whittington, 1350 to 1423), there is a statue of the cat outside the Whittington Hospital in North London where Dick is supposed to have heard the bells say "Turn again Whittington, Lord Mayor of London" as he trudged away from the city. First recorded panto on this theme was in 1814.

Production:: (T2138253739)

Producer	Salisbury Playhouse
Author	Stuart Thomas
Author	Joanna Read
Director	Hannah Chissick
Director	Jane Marlow (music)
Design	Richard Foxton
Lighting	Peter Hunter
Performer	Rebecca Stokes (Dick)
Performer	Jessica Rose (Cat)
Performer	Richard Pocock (Betty the Cook)
Performer	Christopher Pizzey (Idle Jack)
Performer	Laura Strachan (Alice Fitzwarren)

Listing:: L1784804498

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