Current CADS production
What the Dickens??
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Tickets are now on sale for our next show - a production of Mark Evans's hilarious Bleak Expectations (being performed with the kind permission of Nick Hern Books). Originally a radio comedy series, it's a surreal parody of the works of Charles Dickens, as well as other adventure, science fiction, and costume dramas set in the same period.
The play follows the extraordinary exploits of half-orphan Pip Bin with sisters Pippa and Poppy and best friend Harry Biscuit as they attempt to escape the calculating clutches of the dastardly Mr Gently Benevolent, defeat the hideous Hardthrasher siblings, and deflect disaster at every turn. It’s a hilarious, chaotic caper, featuring dastardly villains, preposterous names, pulse-quickening romances, heart-rending death scenes, and definitely… probably… hopefully a happy ending.
It proved really popular at the first of our revived play readings last May and Kathy Young and David Atkins are now co-directing it for the group, with performances planned for Thursday 4, Friday 5 and Saturday 6 June at King James Academy Royston (Senior Site). Tickets are available now either online via our ticketing partners Your Box Office or by phone from our Box Office hotline on 07856 599039.
The full cast is as follows (as usual, those names not in white are appearing with CADS for the first time):
Sir Philip Bin - Michael Young
Agnes Bin - Michelle Marks
Pip Bin - Rupert Jordan
Pippa Bin - Alice Atkins
Poppy Bin - Holly Dwyer
Thomas Bin/Broadly Fecund - Patrick Key
Skinflint Parsimonious - Callum Masterson
Gently Benevolent - Diane Norris
Bakewell Havertwitch - Josh Rhodes
Hardthrasher - David Atkins
Ripely Fecund - Donika Jordan
Ensemble/Voice-over - Emma-Louise Battom
Ensemble/Lily - Sara Geraghty
Ensemble/Crutch Person - Luke Francis
Ensemble/Flora Dies-Early - Romilde Kotze
Ensemble - Louise Atkins
Other small parts are played by members of the ensemble...
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