Co-produced with Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse, this production is adapted by Emma Rice (North by Northwest, Liverpool Playhouse). It marks the return of Everyman’s panto star Zoe West as Bill Robinson and Stephanie Hockley as Irene & MD, and features live music at the Liverpool Playhouse from Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 June.
Zoe West takes on the role of Bill Robinson; their Everyman credits include Romeo and Juliet alongside the Rock ‘n’ Roll pantos Jack and the Beanstalk, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. They are joined by Stephanie Hockley, who previously appeared in Everyman’s Sleeping Beauty, Robin Hood and the 2016 production of Beauty and the Beast.
Completing the cast are Eden Barrie (Grease, Nessie and Toast Fae the Lassies, Pitlochry Festival Theatre) as Mary Lou Atkinson, Molly Cheesley (NOW That’s What I Call A Musical and Jane Austen’s Emma, UK Tour) as Alicia Johns and Rebecca Collingwood (The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, RSC) as Gwendolyn Lacey. Emily Panes (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Ambassadors Theatre; Twelfth Night, Mill at Sonning and Cunard Cruises) joins the cast as Musician, alongside Robyn Sinclair (Four Felons and a Funeral, UK tour; The Grapes of Wrath, National Theatre) as Darrell Rivers and Bethany Wooding (The Crucible, Shakespeare’s Globe; Peerless, Rodney and The Shrieking Sisterhood, Sherman Theatre) plays Sally Hope.
This production is directed by Emma Rice, who was named in the Sky Arts Top 50 most influential British artists. She was with Kneehigh Theatre for 20 years as an actor, director, and later artistic director, working alongside co-artistic director Mike Shepherd. From 2016 to 2018, she served as Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe before founding her own touring theatre company, The Emma Rice Company (formally Wise Children).
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