Overview

Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form, pantomime. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.

Top Cast

K

Ken Wynne

Emperor of China

N

Nichola McAuliffe

Queen Victoria

David Firth

Jack Idle

C

Christopher Hurst

Randy

A

Andrew Thomas James

Randy

Janet Shaw

Sally Forth

A

Andrea Chance

Cherry

S

Samantha Hughes

Cherry

Geoffrey Hutchings

Lady 'Dodo'

A

Antonia Ellis

Dick Whittington

Leo Andrew

Clerk

J

Jimmy Cassidy

Clerk