Details

A comedy musical set in 1947, the story concerns an upwardly mobile chiropodist and his wife. He and his wife are in immediate and austere post Britain.. The Second World War might been over by two years, but food rationing is still in place. Food rationing has made things worse than during the war itself. Within this hierarchy of a very small town, desperate times call for desperate measures. Particularly when it comes to trying to prepare a fine pork roast to celebrate the royal wedding. The chiropodist and his wife steal a pig in order to fatten her up for a banquet celebrating the impending wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten. But the pig is not as co-operative as they want her to be.

Cast/Performers

Sarah Lancashire (Joyce), Reece Shearsmith (Gilbert), David Bamber (Swaby), Jack Edward (Allardyce), Mark Meadows (Lockwood), Adrian Scarborough (Wormold), Ann Emery (Mother Dear), Ian Conningham, Claire Machin, Kirsty Hoiles, Annalisa Rossi, Rachael Archer, Laura Medforth, Andy Mace, Gemma Wardle, James Barron, Dan Burton, Neil Ditt, Chris Howell, Hollie Taylor, Howard Jones, Holly Dale Spencer, Veronica Hay, Rebecca Louis

Creatives/Company

Book by(s): Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman
Music(s): George Stiles, William David Brohn (orchestrations)
Lyrics: Anthony Drewe
Producer: Cameron Mackintosh
Director: Richard Eyre
Choreographer: Stephen Mear
Design: Tim Hatley
Lighting: Neil Austin
Musical Director: Richard Beadle
Sound: Mick Potter
Other(s): Stephen Mear (musical staging), Stephen Brooker (musical supervisor)