Overview
Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form, pantomime. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.
Cast
- Ken Wynne as Emperor of China
- Nichola McAuliffe as Queen Victoria
- David Firth as Jack Idle
- Christopher Hurst as Randy
- Andrew Thomas James as Randy
- Janet Shaw as Sally Forth
- Andrea Chance as Cherry
- Samantha Hughes as Cherry
- Geoffrey Hutchings as Lady 'Dodo'
- Antonia Ellis as Dick Whittington