Director : Lesley Strachan

Assistant Director : Jo Green
Set Design : Jude Chalk
Lighting Design : Steph Potschke
Sound Design : Rob Widdecombe
Stage Manager : Rob Irvine

WHIPPING IT UP, by Steve Thompson

Performance Dates :
Tuesday 13th - Saturday 17th April at 7.45 p.m.
Matinee on 17th April at 3 p.m.
This production will be performed at the Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane, off Fleet Street.

Rehearsals will start in early February.

The director writes :
House of Cards meets Yes Minister meets The Thick of It.
It’s the very near future; the Conservatives are back in power…with a slim majority of three.
The passing of a seemingly innocuous Bill, is mushrooming unexpectedly into a leadership challenge. Five backbenchers are on the loose, the PM is away playing golf with the President unable to get back to the UK in time and the Opposition Chief Whip is playing her most deceptive hand in an undeclared dirtiest tricks competition.
Loyalty is one virtue these manipulators understand, but where does it lie?
A serpentine plot with stinging dialogue, this political comedy premiered in the Bush Theatre in 2006 with Richard Wilson playing the Chief Whip and then transferred to a sell-out West End run at the New Ambassadors in 2007.
We have already had a very positive and encouraging note from the writer, who went to university with one of our members. Watch this space…

The cast is :
Chief Whip (Fulton) : Ric Cooper
Deputy Chief Whip (Alastair) : Simon Boughey
Chief Opposition Whip (Delia) : Sue Brodie
Researcher (Maggie) : Sophie Bide
Junior Whip (Tim) : Theo Leonard
Backbench MP (Guy) : Jimmy Smallwood