LITTLE ROBIN ARNEW MEUSICALDADAPTABTION BYRGLYN KEERSLAKAE AND GASRETH MTACHIN THE CAST JOE ETHERINGTON ELAINE GLOVER PHILIPPA HOGG DAN SMITH ROBIN MOTHER MOLLY FATHER CREATED BY DIRECTOR GARETH MACHIN DESIGNER TOOTS BUTCHER MUSICAL DIRECTOR DAN SMITH LIGHTING DESIGNER PETER HUNTER CHOREOGRAPHER JOANNE REDMAN THE PRODUCTION TEAM PRODUCTION MANAGER JOHN TITCOMBE COMPANY STAGE MANAGER RICKIE GILGUNN DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER KAREN HABENS ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER ED BUTLER COSTUME SUPERVISOR HENRIETTA WORRALL-THOMPSON DEPUTY COSTUME SUPERVISOR TERI BUXTON COSTUME ASSISTANT EMMA STEVENS SET BUILT BY TIM REED, LAURA DAVIES AND KAT ROSS SET PAINTED BY ROD HOLT TECHNICAL MANAGER BARNY MEATS SENIOR TECHNICIANS PETER HUNTER, DAVE MARSH AND JON ROACHE TECHNICIANS MATT BIRD, MICHAEL SCOTT AND CLARE THREADGOLD PRODUCTION PHOTOGRAPHER NICK SPRATLING With thanks to Signs in Motion. HAPPY CHRISTMAS SALISBURY FROM EVERYONE AT SALISBURY PLAYHOUSE PLAYHOUSE JOE ETHERINGTON GARETH MACHIN Vic) Little Sure Shot (The egg, Theatre Royal Bath), Robin Director What’s your angle?-The Mathematics Festival (Non TRAINING: Guildford School of Acting (BA Hons) Gareth is the artistic director of Salisbury Playhouse. Zero One at The London Science Museum), Oliver! THEATRE INCLUDES: Spamalot (The English Theatre Previously, he was studio associate at the National (The Watermill), Heidi – A Goat’s Tale and The French Frankfurt), Twelfth Night (Petrovden Shakespearean Theatre, artistic director of Southwark Playhouse and Detective and the Blue Dog (The egg, Theatre Royal Theatrical Group) and Moonfleece (Edinburgh Fringe). associate director at Bristol Old Vic. Bath). SALISBURY: The Night Before Christmas, A Little of AS PUPPET MAKER/ASSISTANT: Jungle Book (West What You Fancy, Hedda Gabler, Can’t Buy Me Love, Yorkshire Playhouse), The Tempest (The Globe), Igam ELAINE GLOVER The Magna Carta Plays, Little Shop of Horrors, Ogam Live (Wales Millennium Centre/ UK tour). Mother Separate Tables, Bedroom Farce, Worst Wedding AS PROP MAKER-TV: Anchor Butter ad campaign SALISBURY: Cinderella and Come Fly with Me. Ever, London Calling, The Recruiting Officer, A Man of 2014 (Somesuch & Co) TRAINING: (BA Hons) in Actor Musicianship at Rose No Importance, Dangerous Corner, The Spire and FILM: My Stuffed Granny (NFTS). Bruford College. Epsom Downs. THEATRE INCLUDES: The Full Monty (Noel Coward Theatre and No1 tour), The Flint Street Nativity (Hull OTHER DIRECTING INCLUDES: Fanta Orange DAN SMITH Truck Theatre), 20th Century Boy (BAC), Bad Girls- (Finborough Theatre), Three More Sleepless Nights Musical Director The Musical (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The (National Theatre), Serious Money (Bridewell Theatre), TRAINING: Central School of Speech and Drama Retirement of Tom Stevens (The Lakeside Arts The Canterville Ghost, Gaffer!, The Canterbury Tales, MUSICAL SUPERVISOR: Spamalot (English Theatre Centre), Dick Whittington (Theatre Clwyd), Sex, Chips The Chimes and The Archbishop’s Ceiling (Southwark Frankfurt) and Rock and Roll (Royal Exchange Theatre) and The Playhouse), The Real Thing (Royal Theatre, MUSICAL DIRECTOR: Carnaby Street the Musical Lemon Princess (West Yorkshire Playhouse). Northampton), Macbeth (Creation Theatre), The and Carnaby Street the Concert (UK tour), The Secret TELEVISION INCLUDES: Silent Witness, Footballers’ Wizard of Oz (Hall for Cornwall), Who’s Afraid of Garden (Guildford School of Acting), Saturday Night Wives, Heartbeat, The Bill, Holby City, The Royal, Virginia Woolf?, Look Back in Anger, Betrayal, Henry and Assassins (London College of Music), Our House, Hollyoaks, Casualty, Doctors, Emmerdale, Footballer’s IV parts one and two, The Beggar’s Opera, Molly Beauty and the Beast and Fame (Watersmeet, Wives Extra Time and Holby Blue (series 1 & 2). Sweeney, Up the Feeder Down the ‘Mouth and Back Rickmansworth), Jack and the Beanstalk (Theatr FILM INCLUDES: Whoops (Miles Tone Film/Heavy Again, Sea Life, Croak Croak Croak, A Tender Prayer, Colwyn), seven pantomimes for Little Wolf Elephant). Anatomy of a Madman, Bitter With a Twist, Krapp’s Entertainment. CONCERTS INCLUDE: The Long and Winding Road – Last Tape and Spring Awakening (Bristol Old Vic). Voices For A New World, O2 Arena and Christmas WRITING INCLUDES: Pinocchio (adaptation), The Carols With The Stars, The Royal Albert Hall. Adventures of Tom Sawyer (adaptation), Tom Thumb PETER HUNTER and Other Giant Stories and The Canterbury Tales Lighting Designer (adaptation) (Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster). TRAINING: The London Academy of Music and PHILIPPA HOGG Dramatic Art. Molly Peter joined the Playhouse in 1980 and has since lit TRAINING: Arts Educational Schools, London. GLYN KERSLAKE productions of plays by authors ranging from Alan THEATRE INCLUDES: The Leftovers (Curve, Glyn trained at the Arts Educational School, London Ayckbourn to George Bernard Shaw, for many different Leicester), Alice’s Adventures Underground (Les and has 30 years’ experience working as an actor and directors. Highlights include Under Milk Wood, Death Enfants Terribles), Cinderella (Riverfront Newport), musician. of a Salesman, Sweeney Todd, Tess, Moll Flanders The Forever Machine (Wardrobe Ensemble & Bikeshed Alongside his extensive performing career, Glyn is a and Copenhagen. More recently, he has designed the Theatre) The Vaudevillains (Les Enfants Terribles), The self-taught pianist and has performed on the piano in lighting for Worst Wedding Ever (2017), Can’t Buy Games We Played (Theatre 503), Dick Whittington many of the productions he has appeared in including Me Love, Fallen Angels, Clause 39, 84 Charing Cross (Theatre Royal Wakefield), Glow (Flying Eye & The World Goes ‘Round (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Road (2015), Mother Goose, Oh What a Lovely War, Brighton Dome), Tangle (Polyglot Theatre, Australia), Merrily We Roll Along (Derby Playhouse) and The Worst Wedding Ever (2014), Dangerous Corner, A Jack & The Beanstalk (Production Exchange & Key Game of Love and Chance (Salisbury Playhouse). Man of No Importance, Epsom Downs, The Country Theatre Peterborough), Fragment (Iron Shoes/North Over recent years Glyn has been pursuing further work and Faith Healer along with many pantomimes. Wall Oxford), The Lamplighter’s Lament, Romeo and as a musical director and accompanist. He has played Peter’s first job was as assistant electrician at Juliet, Vertigo and Rift Zone (Rich Rusk/Night Light for many West End performers in concerts and Chichester Festival Theatre, followed by four years at Theatre), Dracula (The Egg, Bath) and The Universal cabarets in London and throughout the UK. Glyn the Redgrave Theatre, Farnham. Over 40 lighting Machine (PIT/ The New Diorama). teaches singing at several performing arts colleges in designs there included Guys and Dolls, Mary Rose, London and the Midlands, where he specializes in Cyrano de Bergerac and the memorable revival of musical theatre, and he is also a vocal coach to artists Noël Coward’s Cavalcade with a cast of 314. DAN SMITH preparing to take on roles in major musicals. He is a For many years he designed the lighting for the tour of Father songwriter and composer performing his original songs the Playhouse’s Old Herbaceous, and continues to TRAINING: Central School of Speech and Drama in cabarets as both a solo artist and an MD for other work with Kevin Moore on Crocodiles in Cream. SALISBURY: Worst Wedding Ever performers. Work includes the original music for OTHER THEATRE INCLUDES: London transfers of the THEATRE INCLUDES: Rope, Communicating Doors, Deadly Murder starring Rula Lenska (The Mill, Playhouse’s productions of 84 Charing Cross Road Little Shop of Horrors and Arsenic and Old Lace Sonning) and the musical Haunted (written for (1981), Noël and Gertie, For Services Rendered and (Pitlochry Festival Theatre), Relatively Speaking children) and arrangements for Come Fly with Me and Private Lives for the New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. (Theatre Royal Bath and UK tour), Carnaby Street the The Night Before Christmas at Salisbury Playhouse. Musical (UK tour), Carnaby Street the Concert (UK tour), Dick Whittington (Stafford Gatehouse), Bubbles JOANNE REDMAN (Watermill and UK tour), A Christmas Carol (Trafalgar TOOTS BUTCHER Choreographer Studios), Aladdin, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella Designer TRAINING: Arts Educational School, London and Dick Whittington (Maltings, Berwick-upon-Tweed) TRAINING: Bath Spa University. SALISBURY: The Night Before Christmas, A Little of and Aladdin and Cinderella (Loughborough Town CURRENT AND FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS What You Fancy, Can’t Buy Me Love, London Calling Hall). INCLUDE: The Borrowers (The Watermill), Burke and and A Month in the Country. TELEVISION INCLUDES: Two series of ITV's Popstar Hare (The Watermill/ UK tour). THEATRE INCLUDES: Fen (National Theatre Studio), to Operastar. PAST PRODUCTIONS INCLUDE: Ragtime (Charing Honk! (Northampton Theatre Royal), Blithe Spirit Cross Theatre), Thoroughly Modern Millie Showtime (Watermill, Newbury), Merrily We Roll Along and Challenge (The Adelphi),The Railway Children (The Stepping Out (Derby Playhouse), Sunday in the Park Watermill), Romeo and Juliet (Some Voices-The with George (Menier & Wyndham’s), The Canterbury Southbank Centre), Gormenghast, Tuxedo Tales (Southwark Playhouse), The Rise and Fall of Junction,The Wolves of Willoughby Chase, Twelfth Little Voice (Liverpool Everyman & Hull Truck), Henry Night and You Can’t Take It With You (All The IV pts 1 & 2, The Beggar’s Opera and A Chorus of Watermill) Excuse Me Mrs Pardon (Theatre Tots, UK Disapproval (Bristol Old Vic), The Wizard