Season 42 Play 3 – The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame adapted by Willis Hall
Directed by
Cast
MOLE. – Haydn Cavanagh
BADGER – Michael Robinson
TOAD – Richard Thompson
A PANTOMIME HORSE – Jayne Young & Jean Gibson
A BUTLER – Michael Craft
THE CONSTABLE – Jayne Young
CONSTABLES – Michael Craft, Jean Gibson, Ben Roberts
JUDGE R. de VEERING – Roy Buxton
THE CLERK OF THE COURT – Rachel Firth
ENID (The Constable’s daughter) – Rachel Firth
A BARGE WOMAN – Vicki Vigrass
THE CHIEF WEASEL – Ben Roberts
COUNTRY FOLK, WILDWOODERS & FIELDMICE – Roy Buxton, Michael Craft, Rachel Firth, Jean Gibson, Ben Roberts, Vicki Vigrass, Claire Doyle, Karen Ferguson, Caroline Klempka, Abigail Moody, Paula Rowbotham
Synopsis
A delightful new dramatisation, with enchanting songs (set to music by Denis King) of Kenneth Grahame’s classic tale of riverbank animals – wise old Badger, kindly Rat, gentle Mole and conceited, bossy, boastful Toad, Whose crazes for caravanning and new-fangled
motor cars land him in all sorts of trouble. Our Christmas show for children between the ages of 6 and 106!
Directors Notes
The story of Mole and Rat, of Badger and Toad, has been enjoyed by countless children ever since Kenneth Grahame first began to tell his own son a series of stories on the evening of his fourth birthday early this century.
Tonight’s play is a sensitive and beautiful adaptation by Willis Hall – our famous theatre and television playwright.
It is a story for those who keep the spirit of youth alive in them”
