Ring Round the Moon

by Jean Anouilh
Adapted by Christopher Fry

 

Tower Theatre, Canonbury
June 15th - 22nd, 1991

Also performed at Curtis Mill Green Theatre on June 29th, 1991
 

Cast List

Hugo : Harry Reeder
a young man-about-town
Joshua : Tom Tillery
a crumbling butler
Frederic : Harry Reeder
Hugo's twin brother, in love with
Diana Messerschmann : Jan Reynolds
engaged to Frederic, secretly in love with Hugo
Patrice Bombelles : Nigel Martin
Messerschmann's secretive secretary
Lady India : Jill Batty
Messerschmann's mistress, secretly in love with Bombelles
Madame Desmortes : Barbara Waddell
aunt to Hugo, Frederic and Lady India
Capulet : Denyse Macpherson
her faded companion
Romainville : John Baker
a lepidopterist, patron of Isabelle
Messerschmann : Dominic Batty
Diana's father, a melancholy millionaire
Isabelle : Fiona Shafran
a ballet dancer
Her mother : Betty Reading
a teacher of the pianoforte
General : Alan Nesbitt


Ring Round the Moon


 

Ring Round the Moon


Production Team

Director : Celia Reynolds
Set Design : Laurence Le Charpentier
Lighting Design : Helen Smith
Costume Design : Betty Reading and Susie Brown
Original Music : Richard Addinsell

Stage Manager : Romany Savident
ASMs : Rachel Bird, Abigail Griffiths, Alan Frendo, Joan Walsh
Lighting operator : Geoff Lewis
Sound tape : David Holyoake
Sound operator : Jayne Lawrence
Wardrobe : Betty Reading, Phyl Lee
Isabelle's dress designed and made by : Susie Brown
Set construction : Max, Keith Syrett, Ron Brooker, John McSpadyen, Steve Shepperd, Mike Crawshaw, Abby-Lee Knight, Linda Nixon, Denis Turner, Matthew Deely