Details
A comedy musical set in 1947, the story concerns an upwardly mobile chiropodist and his wife. He and his wife are in immediate and austere post Britain.. The Second World War might been over by two years, but food rationing is still in place. Food rationing has made things worse than during the war itself. Within this hierarchy of a very small town, desperate times call for desperate measures. Particularly when it comes to trying to prepare a fine pork roast to celebrate the royal wedding. The chiropodist and his wife steal a pig in order to fatten her up for a banquet celebrating the impending wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. But the pig is not as co-operative as they want her to be.
Cast/Performers
Sarah Lancashire (Joyce),
Reece Shearsmith (Gilbert),
David Bamber (Swaby),
Jack Edward (Allardyce),
Mark Meadows (Lockwood),
Adrian Scarborough (Wormold),
Ann Emery (Mother Dear),
Ian Conningham,
Claire Machin,
Kirsty Hoiles,
Annalisa Rossi,
Rachael Archer,
Laura Medforth,
Andy Mace,
Gemma Wardle,
James Barron,
Dan Burton,
Neil Ditt,
Chris Howell,
Hollie Taylor,
Howard Jones,
Holly Dale Spencer,
Veronica Hay,
Rebecca LouisCreatives/Company
Book by(s):
Ron Cowen,
Daniel LipmanMusic(s):
George Stiles,
William David Brohn (orchestrations)
Lyrics:
Anthony DreweProducer:
Cameron MackintoshDirector:
Richard EyreChoreographer:
Stephen MearDesign:
Tim HatleyLighting:
Neil AustinMusical Director:
Richard BeadleSound:
Mick PotterOther(s):
Stephen Mear (musical staging),
Stephen Brooker (musical supervisor)