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A theatrical and musical celebration of the life, work and legacy of P. G. Wodehouse, aka ‘Plum’, fifty years after his death, in aid of The National Literacy Trust, presented by Anthony Alderson of the Pleasance Theatre Trust at Wilton’s Music Hall on Tuesday 20th May 2025.

Hosted by Sir Stephen Fry

Words by P.G. Wodehouse

Devised by Piers Torday

Directed by Amy Lane

CAST

Alexander Armstrong, Simon Butteriss, David Cazalet, Hal Cazalet, Sophie-Louise Dann, Sir Stephen Fry, Sophia Hurdley, Emily Langham, Stephen Mangan, Reece McGowan and Miss Baby Sol

Musical direction and arrangements by Simon Beck of the Simon Beck Quartet with
Dafydd Lewis, Gavin Tate-Lovery and James Turner

Choreographers- Adam Denman and Sophia Hurdley
Dance ensemble from Bird College

Robbie Bovington, Taziva-Faye Katstande, Lydia Lloyd, Julia Morlans-Martin, Erin Reynolds and Daniel Souter

Lighting Design Charlie Morgan-Jones

Sound Design Sebastian Frost

Video Design Ben Bull

Assistant Producer Ella Carmen Dale

Production Manager Ali Day

Stage Manager Lucy Barter

Assistant Stage Manager Molly Jackson-French

Crew Dave Burn & Helen Duda

I could not have written this without the generosity, trust and guidance of Paul Kent and Plum’s step-great-grandchildren, David, Hal and Lara Cazalet and the Wodehouse Estate.

I am also indebted to PG Wodehouse: A Life in Letters, edited by Sophie Ratcliffe, Plumtopia.com, MadameEulalie.org and P G Wodehouse: An Illustrated Biography by Joseph Connolly, Wodehouse: A Life by Robert McCrum, A Wodehouse Handbook: The World and Words of P.G. Wodehouse by N.T. Murphy, Plum Sauce: A P.G. Wodehouse Companion and Wodehouse at Work: To the End by Richard Usborne, and The P.G. Wodehouse Miscellany, N.T. Murphy

The original world premiere stage adaptation of John Masefield’s classic, pioneering children’s novel

Original Creative Team (Wilton’s Music Hall)

Writer: Piers Torday
Director: Justin Audibert
Designer: Tom Piper
Lighting Designer: Anna Watson
Composer and Sound Designer: Ed Lewis
Video Designer: Nina Dunn
Movement Director: Simon Pittman
Puppetry Designer: Samuel Wyer
Casting Director: Vicky Richardson
Associate Director: Hannah Joss

Cast (Wilton’s Music Hall, 2017)

Mark Extance
Josefina Gabrielle
Safiyya Ingar
Tom Kanji
Matthew Kelly
Samuel Simmonds
Rosalind Steele
Alistair Toovey

Cast (Wilton’s Music Hall, 2018)

Theo Ancient
Nigel Betts
Mark Extance
Safiyya Ingar
Tom Kanji
Molly Roberts
Samuel Simmonds
Sara Stewart

Revival Creative Team (Royal Shakespeare Company, 2023)

Cast (RSC, 2023)

The Box of Delights Company © RSC

Applications for permission for any use, including performance rights in the UK, must be made in advance, prior to any such proposed use, to Curtis Brown, Cunard House, 15 Regent St., St. James’s, London SW1Y 4LR (info@curtisbrown.co.uk).

No performance may be given unless a licence has first been obtained.

Originally presented by Wilton’s Music Hall

Based on Elizabeth Gaskell’s The Old Nurse’s Story

Whatever you do, no matter how much he cries, don’t go out in the snow.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s famous seasonal ghost story brought to the stage for the very first time, in a thrilling, frightening and utterly original adaptation.

1918. A nurse, recently back from the front, is haunted by her wartime experience. But when she finds herself at a séance, recalling memories of a lonely childhood Christmas on the Northumbrian moors, she also unearths a dark secret that refuses to remain in the shadows…

First performed at Wilton’s Music Hall on 26th November 2021

Professional Performing Rights

Applications for permission for any use whatsoever including performance rights  in the UK must be made in advance, prior to any such proposed use, to Curtis Brown, Cunard House, 15 Regent St., St. James’s, London SW1Y 4LR (info@curtisbrown.co.uk).

A Wilton’s Music Hall Production

Scrooge. As you’ve never seen her before…

1838, London. Jacob Marley is dead. And so is Ebenezer Scrooge…

In our story, Ebenezer died young, but his sister Fan married Marley and, as his widow, has now inherited his moneylending business.

She rapidly becomes notorious as the most monstrous miser ever known, a legendary misanthrope, lonely, and despised by all who cross her path.

Seven years later, on Christmas Eve, Fan Scrooge will be haunted by three spirits.

They want her to change. But will she?

Cast
Sally Dexter as Scrooge
Chisara Agor
Joseph Hardy
Edward Harrison
Brendan Hooper
Ruth Ollman
Yana Penrose

Creative Team
Writer – Piers Torday
Director – Stephanie Street
Designer – Tom Piper
Lighting Designer – Katharine Williams
Composer and Sound Designer – Ed Lewis
Puppetry Designer – Jo Lakin
Movement and Puppetry Movement Director – Emma Brunton
Casting Director – Gabrielle Dawes
Assistant Director – Josie Lena Davies

First performed at Wilton’s Music Hall on 29th November, 2019

Amateur Performing Rights

Applications for performance, including readings and excerpts, by amateurs in the English language throughout the world should be addressed to the Performing Rights Manager, Nick Hern Books, The Glasshouse, 49a Goldhawk Road, London W12 8QP, tel +44 (0)20 8749 4953, email rights@nickhernbooks.co.uk, except as follows: New Zealand: Play Bureau, PO Box 9013, St Clair, Dunedin 9047, tel (3) 455 9959, email info@playbureau.com Australia: ORiGiN Theatrical, Level 1, 213 Clarence Street, Sydney NSW 2000, tel +61 (2) 8514 5201, email enquiries@originmusic.com.au, web www.origintheatrical.com.au

United States of America and Canada: Micheline Steinberg Associates.

Professional Performing Rights

Application for performance by professionals in any medium and in any language throughout the world should be addressed to Curtis Brown Ltd, Haymarket House, 28–29 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4SP, tel +44 (0)20 7393 4400, fax +44 (0)20 7393 4401, email cb@curtisbrown.co.uk No performance of any kind may be given unless a licence has been obtained. Applications should be made before rehearsals begin. Publication of this play do not necessarily indicate its availability for amateur performance.