Performance

Venue	Barbican Centre
	Other spaces: Barbican Theatre,Barbican Hall. Guildhall School of Music and Drama Theatre, Cinema1,Cinema2,Gallery, Silk Street Theatre
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	29th November 2006
Opened	5th December 2006
To	20th January 2007
Prices	From £12.00. To £35.00.
What is currently on at Barbican Centre (V371)

Dick Whittington and His Cat

T037280889
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:T037280889, panto:S01059686152, venue:V371

Production details

B.I.T.E.06

Special Performances

6 Dec 06 Sign Interpreted
13 Jan 07 Open Captioned (STAGETEXT)

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Producer	BITE06
Author	Mark Ravenhill
Director	Edward Hall
Design	Michael Howells
Lighting	Ben Ormerod
Choreographer	Emma Tunmore
Sound	Matt Mackenzie
Musical Director	Sarah Travis
Performer	Roger Lloyd Pack (Sarah the Cook)
Performer	Sam Kelly (Alderman Fitzwarren)
Performer	Debbie Chazen (Fairy BowBells)
Performer	Derek Elroy (Tommy the Cat)
Performer	Miles Jupp (Second Mate)
Performer	Toby Sedgwick (First Mate)
Performer	Caroline Sheen (Alice)
Performer	Summer Strallen (Dick)
Performer	Danny Worters (Lazy Jack)

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