Performance

Venue	Devonshire Park Theatre
	Other spaces: The Congress Theatre, Winter Garden Room, Shackleton Hall
Town	Eastbourne
County	East Sussex
From	8th December 2017
To	14th January 2018
When	Times vary, check with Box Office
What is currently on at Devonshire Park Theatre (V665)

Dick Whittington and His Cat

T01465207898
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.

Archive :: production:T01465207898, panto:S01059686152, venue:V665

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Company

Producer	Jordan Productions
Performer	Toddy Carty (KIng Rat)
Performer	Martyn Knight (Sarah the Cook)
Performer	Tucker (Idle Jack)
Performer	Katherine Glover (Dick Whittington)
Performer	Francesca Leyland (Alice Fitzwarren)

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