Performance

Venue	Wyvern Theatre
Town	Swindon
County	Wiltshire
From	13th December 2002
To	11th January 2003
When	Check with Box Office for times
Prices	From £12.50. To £13.50.
What is currently on at Wyvern Theatre (V928)

Dick Whittington

T1575398093
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:T1575398093, panto:S5912, venue:V928

Production details

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Company

Producer	Charles Vance
Author	Charles Vance
Director	Hugo Myatt
Choreographer	Pollyann Tanner
Lighting	Mark Alexander
Director	Pete Brown (music)
Performer	Pollyann Tanner (Dick)
Performer	Colin Baker (Sarah the Cook)
Performer	Geoffrey Hayes (Geoff)
Performer	Hugo Myatt (King Rat)
Company	The Tanwood Dancers

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