Performance

Venue	Mercury Theatre
	Other spaces: Studio
Town	Colchester
County	Essex
From	13th December 2002
To	18th January 2003
When	Mats and Eve performances. Check with Box Office
Prices	From £9.50. To £18.00.
What is currently on at Mercury Theatre (V37)

Dick Whittington

T01928202609
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:T01928202609, panto:S5912, venue:V37

Special Performances

10 Jan 03 Sign Interpreted

Reviews

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Company

Producer	Mercury Theatre
Author	Janice Dunn
Director	Janice Dunn
Design	Sarah Burton
Lighting	Mark Doubleday
Director	Graeme Du Fresne (music)
Performer	Roger Delves-Broughton (Scratchy)
Performer	Clare Humphrey (Alice)
Performer	Charlene Robertson (Dick)
Performer	Tim Treslove (Itchy)
Performer	Ben Richardson (Tommy the Cat)
Performer	Ignatius Anthony (Alderman Fitzwarren)
Performer	Dale Superville (Jack)
Performer	Katie Stephens (Queen Rat)
Performer	Emily Pithon (Fairy Bowbells)
Performer	Donna-Cheri Boland
Performer	Theresa Lawrence
Performer	Charlie Morgan
Performer	Mark Roper
Performer	Jamie Sampson

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