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When We Were Queens

January

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April

1999

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Barrow Youth Theatre was chosen from amateur companies all over the Northern Region to take part in Future Tense, a festival of 5 new plays written especially for non-professional groups by 5 exciting playwrights from the region.When we Were Queens is based upon three facts.Firstly, as it was illegal for women to act on the Elizabethan stage, the female roles in Shakespeare’s plays were originally played by companies of boy actors.Secondly, the boys were often struggling with poverty and were forced into the life of rent boys.Thirdly - with very few exceptions - they remain to this day unknown, their names unrecorded in any history of the English stage.When We Were Queens explores the lives of some of these boy actors as their struggle to survive leads them into an underworld of drugs, prostitution and murder.The play opens in the wings of The Globe Theatre during a performance of Hamlet...

Cast

John Cherie WoodKit Emma ZimmermanWilliam Hayley MahonJimmy Layla DaviesBeckett Leigh ThornePhillip Matthew GrisedaleSid Owen CharnleyChris Nichola BiggensThomas Robin LennoxJack Danny McKeatingPaul Dan MooreBenno David ShipleyHenry David WoodsJonathan Laura Barker

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Crew

Director Wils WilsonComposer/SoundDesign Olly FoxAssisstant Director Phillip GreggStage Manager Laura MossProduction Manager Richie OrrLighting Design Paul ColleyLighting Technician Leigh PatonSound Technician Tony WilcockWardrobe Assisstants Laura Barker, Cherie Wood

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Crew

John Cherie WoodKit Emma ZimmermanWilliam Hayley MahonJimmy Layla DaviesBeckett Leigh ThornePhillip Matthew GrisedaleSid Owen CharnleyChris Nichola BiggensThomas Robin LennoxJack Danny McKeatingPaul Dan MooreBenno David ShipleyHenry David WoodsJonathan Laura Barker

Cast

Director Wils WilsonComposer/SoundDesign Olly FoxAssisstant Director Phillip GreggStage Manager Laura MossProduction Manager Richie OrrLighting Design Paul ColleyLighting Technician Leigh PatonSound Technician Tony WilcockWardrobe Assisstants Laura Barker, Cherie Wood

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