- Year
- 2011
- When
- December 2011
- Venue
- Moreton Community School, Wolverhampton
- Type
- Pantomime
- Photographs
- 30 in the gallery
Synopsis
This pantomime follows the traditional Mother Goose story. It has a contemporary, modern edge while still retaining the original plot and characters with a few extra pieces of slapstick and ideas. Mother Goose is poor and ugly, and wishes to become rich and beautiful. The nasty Squire Robin Banks is after her to pay the rent, along with his two batty bailiffs Scratch and Sniff. Fairy Emerald and her scatty apprentice, Fairy Nuff, fulfil Mother Goose's first wish by giving her Priscilla, the magic goose which lays golden eggs. Witch Hazel, who is evil through and through and will do anything to get what she wants, fulfils the second, by offering her beauty in return for her soul and the magic goose. Fairy Emerald finally wins the day and the pantomime ends with a surprise double wedding and everyone living happily ever after.
From the company’s records
6 to 10 December 2011.
This was the first pantomime in the company's 83 year history.
Phil James joined the production team as Musical Director, having worked with the company for several years as rehearsal pianist.
Who made it
Production team
- Producer/Director
- Andy Poulton
- Musical Director
- Phil James
- Choreographer
- Meg Dowen
Cast
- Jill Goose
- Claudia Gilmour
- Mother Goose
- Colin Hunt
- Squire Robin Banks
- Alf Rai
- Scratch
- Carol Burgess
- Sniff
- Chris Dowen
- Jack
- Sam King
- Danny Dimwit
- James Allen
- Emerald the Forest Fairy
- Charlotte Poulton-Dowen
- Fairy Nuff
- Abbie Rai
- Witch Hazel
- Mary Mark
- Priscilla
- Chris Spittle
Everybody else
The rest of the names the company’s records carry for this production, on stage and off it.
Chorus26
John Arnold, Hannah Bevan, Victoria Bird, Grace Bradshaw, Zoe Clee, Rachel Coleman, Megan Cooper, Hannah Corbett, Kay Corbett, Liz Corbett, Phillip Field, Sarah Joynes, Lydia Lavill, Nikki Rai, Jenni Rullan, Katie Russon, Val Simpkiss, Kimberley Smith, Nat Williams, Amelia Gilmour, Angela Holmes, Barbara King, Emily Lloyd-Hickman, Bethany North, Freya Poulton, Abbie Sellick
Non-acting members27
Vicky Anthony, Brenda Arnold, Peter Arnold, Emma Bond, Dorothy Copson, Terry Corbett, Rob Dixon, Meg Dowen, Jill Hodgkins, Sidney Hodgkins, Christine Hunt, Trevor Law, Rob Lehman, Alan Merrick, Betty Merrick, Alan Pooler, Andy Poulton, Tamason Poulton, Pat Small, Bryan Smith, Eileen Southall, Lisa Turner, Kelly Turner, Mandy Ricketts, Brian White, Wendy White, Jacob Wright
Photographs
See all 30 photographs from Mother Goose
Were you in it?
We would like to know more about Mother Goose.
The record for this production is thinner than the show deserves. If you were in it, or you were in the audience, you may have something the archive does not.
Programmes, photographs, cuttings from the local paper, a cast list in somebody’s handwriting: all of it helps, and we will add it here.
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