Cast and creatives

Cast

CHARLIE BUCKLAND Dr Lanyon

Charlie trained at UCW and E15. Theatre highlights include: St Pancras North in the double Oliviernominated play, This House (National Theatre/Garrick Theatre, London); Oscar Wilde in In Extremis written by Neil Bartlett (King’s Head London/UK tour) and Mr Johnson in Mr Selfridge (ITV). Recent work includes: Keir Hardie in Emmeline (Cockpit Theatre, London); The Husband in the award-winning short film, Lonely in Lockdown: Couples Therapy and Leonard Miall in the Alan Whicker radio biog-drama, The Other Side of the World (BBC R4). Charlie was last at Derby with Horrible Histories.

HILARY GREATOREX Matron/Mrs Poole

Hilary is from Darley Abbey and lived in Derby until training at East 15 Drama School. She’s worked in repertory theatre across the UK, including Once a Catholic, The Merchant of Venice, Alice in Wonderland and Treasure Island for the Swan Theatre, Worcester, Charlie’s Aunt, The Lakers and A Christmas Carol for the Theatre by the Lake in Keswick and Wakey Wakey! In Bed with Billy Cotton for the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. She toured in Blue Remembered Hills for Millstream Theatre Company. Recently, she performed in The Last Woodwose and First the Dance, then the Feast in the woods and outdoor theatres of Suffolk for Wonderful Beast. She’s a regular performer at Ink, a festival for new writing. TV credits include: Friday Night Dinner, Eastenders, Family Affairs, Casualty, Doctors, Waterloo Road, Whistleblower and Coronation Street. Hilary is also a storyteller and workshop leader. Her one-woman shows for young people include, The Old Woman Who lived in a Vinegar Bottle, Leather & Liquorice, and Pantastic! A Tale of Twisted Knickers. She works regularly with Scene and Heard, a children’s mentoring charity in London. TIFE KUSORO The Girl, Tilly

Tife is an actor and writer. She trained on the National Youth Theatre’s 2020-21 Rep company and on Talawa Theatre Company’s young people’s programme. Theatre credits include: Animal Farm (National Youth Theatre). Jekyll and Hyde is Tife’s professional acting debut.

POLLY LISTER Dr Stevenson

Polly trained at Manchester Met. Uni Theatre School and The National Youth Theatre. She last worked with Derby Theatre on Great Expectations playing Miss Havisham and also appeared in Solace of The Road and Cooking with Elvis. She is delighted to be back and to be collaborating with The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. Theatre credits include: One Man Two Guvnors, Hound Of The Baskervilles (Bolton Octagon); Abigail’s Party (UK Theatre Award Winner - Best Performer); Fallen Angels, Memory Of Water, The Blue Room, Hayfever, Our Country’s Good, Private Lives (plus many more in Rep. at Theatre By The Lake, Keswick); Beauty And The Beast, Playhouse Creatures, Votes For Women, Table, 101 Dalmatians, The Snow Queen, The Borrowers, As You Like It (New Vic, Stoke); Blue Stockings (Storyhouse, Chester); The Wizard Of Oz (Leeds Playhouse); Worst Witch Live - (Olivier Award Winner for Best Family Show - Theatre Royal Northampton/ UK Tour/ West End); The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, Di and Viv and Rose, The Snow Queen (Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough); A Christmas Carol (Hull Truck); Much Ado About Nothing (Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds/ Mercury, Colchester); To Sir With Love (Birmingham Rep) and Saint Joan (National Theatre) Film credits include: The Murder of Stephen Lawrence, RTFM, Polterheist, London-Unplugged. Presenting credits include: Fite TV: Wrestling Showdown Writing credits include: I Was A Wife Radio credits include: The Archers, Ladies’ Delight, Aromatherapy, Tree Splitting, Distance Between, Lulu, Something Blue (all for BBC Radio)

JAMES MORRELL The Inspector

James graduated from ALRA South in 2020 and starred in Spring Awakening, Nell Gwynn, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, Twelfth Night; Or What You Will. James has amassed over a quarter of a million followers on Tiktok, taking the internet by storm.

CRAIG PAINTING Mr Enfield

Theatre credits include: Holes (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Oliver Twist (Leeds Playhouse); Soonchild (Red Earth, UK tour); The Massacre and ’Til We Meet In England (Lost Text/Found Space); Egg (Cahoots Theatre Company, NI tour); The Jungle Book and The Firework-Maker’s Daughter (Birmingham Stage Company, UK tour). TV credits include: Of Tea & Love; D.I. Ray; Doctors. Film credits include: Just Charlie; The Mandrake Root. Craig also delivers drama workshops to young people and is a keen user of British Sign Language, both professionally as a trainee interpreter and socially.

LEVI PAYNE Mr Guest

Levi Payne is an actor based and born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. He trained at the University of Central Lancashire (20102013) and was a member of the regional young actors ensemble with Hull truck Theatre (2017-2018). Since then, he has done a range of Theatre and TV work throughout the UK. Levi also works as a youth Theatre Practitioner/Assistant at Cast, Doncaster. Theatre credits include: Teechers Leavers 22 (Hull Truck); Love Hurts (New Vic Theatre); Mother Courage (Red Ladder); When We Were Brothers (Freedom Studios); Hidden Histories Tour (Mind the Gap); Hench (M6 Theatre); Of Mice and Men (Cast, Doncaster). TV/Film credits include: Brassic, Coronation Street, Pond Life (Open Palm Films); Separation (Urban Conceptz) and New Mars. NICHOLAS SHAW Jekyll and Hyde

Nicholas trained at Drama Centre in London. Theatre credits include: Beauty and the Beast (New Vic Theatre); My White Best Friend - North (Eclipse Theatre); Brassed Off (New Vic Theatre); Wonderland (Nottingham Playhouse); Nell Gwynn (Shakespeare’s Globe/Nimax); Wolf Hall Parts 1 & 2 (RSC @ Winter Garden Theatre, NYC); Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies (RSC/Playful); Rutherford & Son (Northern Broadsides); Lighthearted Intercourse (Bolton Octagon); Hamlet (Northern Broadsides/New Vic Theatre); The Giant Killers (Long Lane Theatre Company); A Provincial Life (National Theatre Wales); Phaedra’s Love (Arcola Theatre); Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (Liverpool Everyman); Anthology, Pandemic (Slung Low); The Fairy Queen (Opera Comique/Theatre De Caen/Brooklyn Academy of Music); The Merchant of Venice, Holding Fire! (Shakespeare’s Globe); Easter (Oxford Stage Company). TV credits include: Bridgerton, Endeavour, Young Wallander, The Rotter’s Club, Land Girls, Foyle’s War; Afterlife; All About Me, Holby City, Emmerdale, Goldplated, Heartbeat, Doctors and Dalziel and Pascoe. Radio credits include: Words and Sounds (BBC Radio 3). Film credits include: Munich: The Edge of War, Napoleon.

ROBERT VERNON Mr Utterson

Robert trained at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Theatre credits include: Marlowe’s Fate (White Bear); Great Expectations (Rotherhithe Playhouse); The Rivals, Dial M for Murder, The Vertical Hour (Theatre by the Lake); A Doll’s House, Beauty and the Beast (Sherman, Cardiff); Solace of the Road (Derby Theatre); Beauty and the Beast (Riverfront Theatre Newport); Wuthering Heights (Welsh Tour); The Life and Death of Julius Ceasar (Leptis Magna, Libya); Othello (RSC); Tamburlaine (Bristol Old Vic/Barbican); Cooking With Elvis (Edinburgh) and Ecstasy (Elan Wales). TV credits include: Father Brown, Casualty. Film credits include: Censor, The Village in the Woods. Voice-over credits include: Final Fantasy, Assassins Creed, Battlefield, Cyberpunk and A Plague Tale.

Creatives

Neil Bartlett                                                Adaptor Sarah Brigham                                              Director Jessica Curtis                                              Designer Ivan Stott                                                Composer Deb Pugh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Movement Director Simeon Miller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Lighting Designer Adam Jefferys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Associate Lighting Designer Anita Gilbert                                            Voice Coach Philip Bond of PMB Theatre                             Magic Consultant & Exhibition Services Ltd Omar Khan                                         Assistant Director Kay Magson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Casting Director Grant Archer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rehearsal and Production Photography Moby Renshaw . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Company Stage Manager Clelia Crawford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deputy Stage Manager Anthony Fearnley                               Assistant Stage Manager Lauren Harvey-Dempster                         Company Stage Manager (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch)