08 JULY – 17 AUGUST 2024
SOME MOTHERS DO ‘AVE ‘EM
The loveable accident-prone Frank Spencer fails to navigate even the easiest tasks of daily life, while also trying to look after his wife and baby, with hilarious consequences. A simple, likeable character who unwittingly and apologetically left a trail of devastation in his wake, Spencer’s ineptitude and determination to try everything led to many unforgettable moments of laugh out loud comedy.
Based on the 1970s classic TV hit by Ray Allen and written by the award-winning Guy Unsworth, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em is the ultimate feel-good night out, washed down with lashings of nostalgia belly laughs and Mother’s prune wine. It was first broadcast in 1973 and ran for two series, including two Christmas specials in 1974 and 1975.
During the 1970’s the show dominated our television screens and became regarded as one of the most popular hit series of all time. It regularly garnered 25 million viewers and was broadcast in 60 countries. Frank Spencer, with his trademark beret and trench coat still remains one of the most beloved and most instantly recognisable comedy characters of all time.
DETAILS
TICKETS
Great value tickets available now
Age Guidance
8+
RUNNING TIME
Approx. 120 minutes (including interval)
SHOW INFO
Director: Joseph O’Malley
PROGRAMME
Cast
SAM DENIA
as Frank Spencer
LAURA MEAD
as Betty Spencer
JULIA TEAL
as Barbara Fisher
DEREK ELROY
as Father O’Hara
STEVEN WREN
as Mr Worthington/Mr Luscombe
GEORGIA LEILA STROLLER
as Leslie/Constable
View cast biographies
SAM DENIA
Sam’s recent theatre credits include Murder For Two (Barn Theatre), Dromio of Syracuse in Comedy of Errors (Maltings Theatre), Lomov in Chekhov’s Sketches and Vaudevilles (White Bear Theatre), and Oh Yes I Am (King’s Head Theatre). Including multiple music videos for Passenger (Phase Films), Patient 13 (Radio – CTVC) and The Kings (Short Film). Sam is an accomplished pianist and musician and is delighted to return to the Barn Theatre in ‘Treasure Island’.
LAURA MEAD
Theatre Credits include, Ella in “Tinderella” (Union Theatre / RED Entertainment); Kelly / Rosie / Paige in Alan Ayckbourn’s “Damsels in Distress” (Paul Taylor-Mills Rep / Theatre Royal Windsor); Lana Sherwood in “It’s a Wonderful Life – A Live Radio Play” (The Town & Gown, Cambridge); Carol in “The Date” (Market Theatre); Viola in “Shakespeare in Love” with Roy Walker (The Living Theatre); Trish in “Days of Significance” (Arcola) and “Romeo and Juliet” (The Minack). TV Credits include “Call the Midwife” and “Holby City”. Laura is also a Writer and her play “Vanilla” enjoyed huge success at last year’s VAULT Festival and The Old Rep, Birmingham.
JULIE TEAL
The Land Of Might Have Been, Buxton Opera Festival, The Chalk Garden ( Theatre Royal, Windsor )Lady Featherington in Bridgerton for Secret Cinema, The Vortex (British Playhouse Theatre, Singapore) Lady Anna All At Sea (The Park Theatre and national tour) Mansfield Park (Theatre Royal, Bury and tour), Improbable Fiction, Confusions, Just Between Ourselves, Framed, There Goes The Bride (Mill at Sonning) The Thunderbolt, Diana of Dobsons, Skin Game (Orange Tree Theatre) Hayfever, Abandonment (York Theatre Royal) Don’t Dress For Dinner (Theatre Royal, Northampton) Death and the Maiden, Ashes, Dial M for Murder (Palace Theatre, Westcliff) Tons of Money (Liverpool Everyman) Bare Necessities ( Belgrade, Coventry) Turkey Time (Bristol Old Vic) You Never Can Tell , A Voyage Round My Father ( Dundee Rep) Musicals include The King and I (Everyman, Cheltenham) Annie (Hornchurch) Three Men In A Boat, The Wizard of Oz (Theatr Clwyd) Scrooge (Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham) The Queen’s Nose (Palace Theatre) and Princess Phyllida’s Fortnight (Tristan Bates).
TV and Film Includes: Top Boy, series 2, Luther (BBC) Emmerdale (ITV) Midsomer Murders (Bentley Productions) Doctors, Honest, Hustle, Casualty, Eastenders, Holding On (BBC) 20 Things To Do Before You’re 30 (Tiger Aspect) Touch of Frost (Yorkshire Television) Footballers Wives (Shed Productions ITV) The Bill (Thames Television) Touching Evil (ITV)
She’s Out, Class Act (Cinema Verity) The Chief (Anglia Television) Food of Love (Intrinsica Films).
Audio work includes radio, dubbing, commercials and over 200 audio books.
Julie has just finished recording Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman and Michael Brabant.
Recently Julie has also started writing and performing poetry at spoken word events all round London and beyond.
DEREK ELROY
This vibrant native Caribbean, actor developed his skills at the notable Rose Bruford College London. Derek was able to fuse his passion for the theatrics with the cerebral thirst for education, all wrapped up in an innate gift for comedy.
Theatre credits:
Grenfell:Systems Failure (The Playground Theatre, The Tabernacle & Marylebone Theatre) Christmas in the Sunshine (Unicorn Theatre) Jack & the Beanstalk (Dartford Orchard Theatre) Value Engineering (The Tabernacle/Birmingham Rep); Grimm Tales (The Dukes Theatre); Aladdin (Churchill Theatre); Calendar Girls The Musical (UK Tour) The Wind In The Willows (The Rose Theatre); Screwed (Theatre 503); Routes (Millennium Theatre); Robin Hood (Theatre Royal Stratford East); One Man, Two Guvnors (The National Theatre, West End and UK Tour 2014/15); Kinston 14 (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Little Red Riding Hood (Theatre Royal Stratford East); Aladdin (Theatre Royal Stratford East); The Harder They Come (The Playhouse Theatre & UK/International tour 2009/10); 6 Mics No Luggage (Edinburgh Festival 2007);
The Harder They Come (Theatre Royal Stratford East 2007); Dick Whittington And His Cat (The Barbican); The World Cup Final 1966 (Battersea Arts Centre); The Gruffalo (Tall Stories USA & Canadian Tour); The Blues Brothers (German Tour); ‘666’ (The Riverside Theatre & European Tour); I Was Looking At The Ceiling And Then I Saw The Sky (The Southwark Theatre & The Royal Opera House); Big Nose & Mother Goose (The Belgrade Theatre); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Theatre Royal Northampton); Foe (Theatre de Complicite Tour); Carmen Jones (European Tour) and Dirty Reality & Forgotten Heroes (Black Mime Theatre).
Television Credits: Fortitude 2, Rev, If, Casualty, Crimewatch, Hope And Glory, Noel’s House Party, Backup, The Bill (BBC) and Buried Treasure (ITV).
Film Credits: Stupid Boy (Athentiv); Their Story, Your Choice (BB Productions); Val & Elsie (BB Productions); Breakfast On Pluto (Breakfast on Pluto Productions); The Diary of Bridget Jones (Working Titles); The Nutcracker (Sands Films) and Revolver (Crucial Films).
Radio Credits: Bad Salsa (BBC Radio) Torchwood-Tube Strike (Big Finish Productions) River Song (Big Finish Productions).
STEVEN WREN
Steven trained at Bretton Hall – and this year, celebrates 40 years in theatre.
An Edinburgh native, he’s worked with most of Scotland’s theatre companies as an actor, musician, director or musical director – Borderline, Pen Name, theatre babel, 7:84, The Tron, Dundee Rep, Perth Rep, The Byre, Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Royal Lyceum Theatre and Scottish Opera being some of them.
His professional debut was a musical about the miner’s strike DURING the miner’s strike. He played a policeman – a baptism of fire – as it toured mining communities in Scotland. He’s played the Edinburgh Festival Fringe many times; last year in a new musical about Alan Turing.
For the last 12 years, he’s directed and co-written the pantomimes at Eden Court in Inverness, and for the last 8, has played Dame too, picking up nominations for Best Panto and Best Script in the National Pantomime Awards.
Like every Scottish actor his age, he’s done his share of Taggart – twice as a policeman and once as a villain. He was the older face of the Scottish COVID vaccination campaign, seen all over the country in TV ads, posters and pamphlets.
This is his first appearance at The Barn.
GEORGIE LEILA STROLLER
Georgia is a South African born actress, singer, dancer and musician (guitar, alto saxophone and drums/percussion).
Training: Artsed MT Foundation & Mountview Academy Of Theatre Arts BA Hons in Actor Musicianship.
Credits: JULIE: The Musical (UK Tour), Treasure Island (The Barn Theatre), The Canterbury Tales (UK Tour) Georgia is delighted to return to The Barn this summer for this wildly entertaining cult classic.
CREATIVES
GUY UNSWORTH
WRITER
Guy Unsworth is an award-winning director and writer working in the UK and internationally. His work spans a wide range of genres, including Shakespeare, musicals and theatre-films.
Writing Credits include: Joyride the Musical, Spot’s Birthday Party, A Christmas Carol, Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Beauty & the Beast, Co-bookwriter with Alain Boublil for the 2012 revival of Marguerite, Co-writer for the West End hit Cool Rider, Adaptations of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
JOSEPH O’MALLEY
DIRECTOR
Having been involved in the world of professional theatre since the age of 15, Joseph worked with a number of leading organisations such as the National Youth Theatre, National Theatre, Watermill and the Royal Shakespeare Company before striking out on his own as a director.
With a company-led, ensemble focus to his work, Joseph is frequently seen directing fast-paced, highly physical storytelling, whether that be classic adaptations or brand new work.
Credits include;
Around the World in 80 Days, Ben Hur, The 39 Steps, The Hound of the Baskervilles, One Minute (Barn Theatre, Cirencester), The Dinosaur Show (Southwark Playhouse), The Ugly Duckling and Other Stories (Lichfield Garrick and several UK tours), A Christmas Carol (Lichfield Garrick and several tours), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (several tours),
Digital credits include;
The Three Musketeers starring Robert Lindsay (digital audio animation), Bard from the Barn (digital monologue series)
ALFIE HEYWOOD
DESIGNER
Alfie’s recent credits as Designer include: The True Adventures of Marian and Robin Hood, Private Lives, Treasure Island (Barn Theatre), Adrian Mole the Musical (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Ellen and Rigby, A Greasy Spoon, Vernon’s Girls, Lost in Colomendy, Netherley Hillbillies, Offered Up, Omnibus (all at Liverpool’s Royal Court), A Monster Call’s and Wendy and Peter Pan (Watermill Theatre), Guys and Dolls, Start (both at Mountview Academy), Nora: A Doll’s House, The Ballad of Maria Marten (both at Rose Bruford), Lord of the Flies (Greenwich Theatre), Unspoken Spoken (Candoco Dance Company).
Recent credits as associate to designer Christopher Oram include: Turn of the Screw and Platee (both at Garsington Opera), Bitter Wheat (Garrick Theatre, West End), Geisha (Northern Ballet), The Mirror and the Light (Gielgud Theatre, West End), The Wreckers (Houston Grand Opera), Backstairs Billy (Duke of York’s Theatre, West End), The Artist (Theatre Royal Plymouth), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Goodman Theatre, Chicago) and most recently La Traviata (Sante Fe Opera). They are currently working on a design for Tulsa Ballet’s new production of Alice in Wonderland and Norwegian’s National Ballet production of Romeo and Juliet both opening in 2025.
Examples of his work can be found at www.alfieheywood.com
ADAM FOLEY
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Adam trained at the University of Hull, is part of award-winning theatre company SIlentUproar and was an ALPD Luméire for 2020. His previous design credits include:
My Voice Was Heard But it Was Ignored, Smile Club (Red Ladder); We Used To Be Closer Than This, The Little Mermaid, Cinderella, Robin Hood (Middle Child); Last Motel (Sheepish Productions); Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin (CAST); Hansel & Gretel: Fairytale Detectives(Paperfinch & Theatr Clwyd); The Culture, Our Mutual Frien (Hull Truck Theatre); Small Wonders (Punchdrunk); The Golden Fleece, A Super Happy Story (About Feeling Super Sad), Pig, Small Plans (Silent Uproar); The Merry Wives (Northern Broadsides); The Culture (Hull Truck); A Christmas Carol –Associate to Josh Carr (Leeds Playhouse and Hull Truck Theatre).
SAM GLOSSOP
SOUND DESIGNER
Sam is a Sound Designer and Composer Based in Sheffield, He trained at Leeds Metropolitan University in music production and has an MA in Composition from Chichester University
Recent design work includes; Importance Of Being Earnest (Manchester Royal Exchange), Home (Minerva, Chichester Festival Theatre); Instructions For A Teenage Armageddon (Garrick Theatre, West End) Paper (Lyceum, Sheffield Theatres); Much Ado About Nothing (Crucible, Ramps On The Moon & Sheffield Theatres); Boy On The Roof (UK Tour); Leaves of Glass (The Park Theatre); To Wong Foo (Hope Mill Theatre); Cinderella: A Fairy Tale (Northern Stage); I’m Sorry Prime Minister, I Can’t Quite Remember, Private Lives, Around the World In Eighty Days (The Barn Theatre); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (UK Tour); Peter Pan (Reading Rep); Doctor Faustus, The Changeling (Southwark Playhouse); Flinch (UK Tour) Queen Mab (Iris Theatre)Gracie (Finborough Theatre); Dead Good (UK Tour); The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Greenwich Theatre); Henna Night (New Diorama); By Jeeves, Tell Me On a Sunday (The Old Laundry Theatre); Where is Peter Rabbit? (Theatre Royal Haymarket West End / Hong Kong and Singapore tour); The Blanket Fort Club (UK Tour)
Associate Work Includes: Spy Plays (Above The Stag)., Accidental Death of An Anarchist (Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End)
ANNIE DUGGAN
STUNT CO-ORDINATOR
Annie trained with The Academy of Performance Combat and has now been a qualified teacher for 10 years. Living in Bristol Annie teaches regular stage and screen combat classes and workshops at SGS college, Travelling Light Theatre Company and Bristol School of Acting.
Some of her Fight Directing credits include: ‘Arabian Nights’ – Bristol Old Vic, ‘Piaf’ – The Weston Studio, ‘This Restless House’ – The Tobacco Factory, ‘Romeo and Juliet’ – Bristol UWE, ‘Macbeth’ – The Watermill Theatre.
Some of her Tv Credits as a Fight Performer include: Top Boy, The Witcher, Bulletproof, Humans, Avenue 5, Embankment, I hate Suzie, My Lady Jane.
Alongside her fight work Annie is also serving in the Army Reserves and has a love for the outdoors, especially rock climbing and surfing.
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