The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe by C S Lewis apadted by Glynn Robbins

10 - 20 January

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe promotional poster

Cast:

PETER , Jon Taylor

SUSAN , Toni Bird

EDMUND , George Clayton

LUCY , Isabelle Gessey

PROFESSOR , Tom Bird

MRS MACREADY , Sandra Bird

MR TUMNUS , Maurice Felton

WHITE WITCH , Sandra Bird

MAUGRIM , David Webb

DWARF , Georgia Bustin

MR BEAVER , Richard Walter

MRS BEAVER , Gemma Tansell

FATHER CHRISTMAS , Tom Bird

ASLAN , Mark Stokes

LEOPARDS/SNOW FOXES , Leigh Felton/Brett Darby

WOLF , Rachel Careless

Other parts played by members of the company
An O.R.P. Production directed by Alan Wood.

Crew:

SET DESIGN , Ray Lockey

LIGHTING DESGN , Alan Wood

STAGE MANAGER , Diane Careless

DESIGN CONSULTANT , Emma Blundell

SCENIC ARTISTS , Nick Lockey, Ray Lockey, Ross Ashley, Emma Blundell

PROJECT BUILD TEAM: LEADER , Peter Turton

DESIGN & CONSTRUCT , John Taylor, Danny Hulse, Chris Ely, Margueritte Ely and John Caffrey

SOUND DESIGN , Alan Wood, Wayne Colwell

PROPS , Rachel Careless, Diane Careless

MAKE UP , Victoria Fleming

COSTUME , RSC and for ORP Carol Taylor, Mary Prestidge, Sylvia Pugh

TECHNICAL OPERATORS , Melissa Herbert, Aiden Colwell, Alan Wood

PROMPT , Wayne Colwell

CHAPERONS , Samantha Gessey, Margueritte Ely

Many thanks to Paul Spilsbury and Helen Richards for their assistance.

The action takes place during the second world war in the professors old house and various locations in Narnia.

The Play:

This is a story of magic adventure, and very powerful magic it was, in which four ordinary children, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, became involved. It started in a strange house where they were staying, and Lucy found she could go through the back of a wardrobe into a snowy land of pine forests where she found a faun. Edmund got through to it too, but he did not find the friendly faun. Instead he ran straight into the White Witch herself, a terrifying person, but she gave him what he wanted more than anything else at that moment - Turkish Delight. Then he told her of Lucy's adventures with the faun, and about the other brother and sister who had not yet found the way through the wardrobe. Two boys, Two girls! That is what the old legend told her she needed to hold her spell over the Land of Narnia, so she made Edmund promise to bring the other three to her. That was how it started, with the Witch and the Wardrobe, and the Lion was not long in making an appearance. He was the great Aslan, Lord of the Wood.

To Lucy Barnfield

My dear Lucy,
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realised that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be
your affectionate Godfather,
C. S. Lewis