Poppy

Overview

Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form, pantomime. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.

Cast

Ken Wynne

Emperor of China

Nichola McAuliffe

Queen Victoria

David Firth

Jack Idle

Christopher Hurst

Randy

Andrew Thomas James

Randy

Janet Shaw

Sally Forth

Andrea Chance

Cherry

Samantha Hughes

Cherry

Geoffrey Hutchings

Lady 'Dodo'

Antonia Ellis

Dick Whittington