Cox & Box / HMS Pinafore
By Gilbert & Sullivan
9th to 13th June 2015
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham
Directors
Stage Director: Gill Cogzell (HMS Pinafore), David Manifold (Cox & Box)
Musical Director: David Manifold
Principals
Cox & Box
Cox - Rob Barton-Ancliffe
Box - Samuel Taunton
Bouncer - Brian Crosby
HMS Pinafore
Sir Joseph Porter - Anthony Jones
Captain Corcoran - David Roberts
Ralph Rackstraw - Mike Ferris
Dick Deadeye - Paul Scott
Bill Bobstay (Bosun) - Malcolm Webb
Bob Becket (Carpenter's Mate)
- Philip Wenham
Josephine - Cathy Keating
Little Buttercup - Hannah Boydell
Cousin Hebe - Rachel Prudden
Chorus
Ladies
Sarah Aston
Sarah Eliot
Jeanie Flint
Fiona Gordon-Smith
Penny Lewis
Molly Masters
Maggie Preston
Pat Schofield
Jo Scriven
Tara Turner
Gentlemen
Dai Barker
Robert Barton-Ancliffe
Brian Crosby
Alan Flint
Duncan Hooper
Paul Murphy
Richard Schofield
Samuel Taunton
'Cox & Box' was a collaboration between F.C. Burnard, editor of Punch magazine, and Sir Arthur Sullivan. It's a fast moving one act story of two men renting the same room from the rascally landlord Bouncer. Cox works by day and Box by night, so Bouncer gets double rent for his single room until Cox, having a day off, confronts Box! In the ensuing mayhem, the two tenants learn they've much more in common than simply sharing a room.....
After this heady excitement, we take you off to sea with a traditional setting of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'H.M.S. Pinafore' where Captain Corcoran's daughter, Josephine, falls in love with lowly able seaman Ralph, despite her father's wishes that she marry the First Sea Lord, Sir Joseph Porter. But surely true love must triumph over rank and station?!
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