Performance

Venue	Anvil Arts
	Other spaces: Forge
Town	Basingstoke
County	Hampshire
From	14th December 2005
To	8th January 2006
When	Times vary, check with Box Office
Prices	From £15.00. To £17.50.
What is currently on at Anvil Arts (V765)

Dick Whittington

T1190490150
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:T1190490150, panto:S5912, venue:V765

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Company

Producer	Peter Frosdick
Producer	Martin Dodd (for UK Productions)
Performer	Barney Harwood
Performer	Richard Calkin
Performer	Anna Karen
Performer	Tania Thatley (Alice Fitzwarren)
Performer	Steve Hewlett (and Pongo - Captain and Mate)
Performer	Stephen David (Sarah the Cook)
Performer	Danielle Murphy (Dick Whittington)

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