Season 24 Play 4 – Trudy And The Minstrel by Alan Cullen
Directed by
Cast
Peter Pumpernickel – Andrew Muirhead
Sentry – Nicholas Chaffer
Siegfried – Malcolm Lorimer
Baroness – Jean Stuckey
Rothbart – Edward Jones
Schlafnicht – Philip Speight
Weissbart – Gordon Sugden
Rom – Gordon Sugden
Romola – Barbara Chaffer
King’s Head – Robert Green
Baron – Frank Rushworth
Brother Innocent – Laurie Cook
Sea King’s Daughter – Elizabeth Chaffer
Other Trolls – Jane Briggs, Judith Buckley, Christine Peacock, Anne Stevenson, Sandra Walmsley
Other Gypsies – Julie Barker, Louise Chaffer, Nicholas Chaffer
Synopsis
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Directors Notes
“Once upon a time”-that’s how all good fairy tales begin–but you’ve heard all that before, haven’t you? Besides, this isn’t a fairy tale.
This is a story of ADVENTURE so come along with Trudi and her minstrel friend, Peter Pumpernickel (isn’t that a funny name?) to a colourful land of music and magic of goodies and baddies- -of plot and counterplot-the land of the dragon and trolls a land full of delight.
You’ll even meet a REAL LIVE MERMAID- and a charming prince, of course. It is a land and a story of things ancient (the Baroness, for instance) and things modern (yes-_they have ‘pop’).
It’s almost a Pantomime, but much more exciting!
I really mustn’t tell you any more. All right–just one more thing l’lI tell you it’s a truly MAGICAL play BECAUSE -guess what?
When it’s over, it will be nearly Christmas when Santa Claus comes and everybody is happy and people suddenly all become “goodies”.
We hope that Father Christmas will be good to you.