
The show in 2010 was The Gondoliers, and was performed in the Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge, from 26 to 30 October 2010 at 7:30 pm (with a matinee at 2:30 pm on Saturday the 26th) and at the Apex Theatre, Bury St Edmunds, on 5 November 2010 at 7:30 pm.
IN VENICE live two brothers, Marco and Giuseppe. They are happy being Gondoliers until one day an imposing stranger announces they are not, in fact, brothers but that one of them is the only son-and- heir of the late King of Barataria. Precisely which of the brothers is a King and which a Gondolier is unfortunately an inconvenient mystery. It is doubly inconvenient when they discover that the King, whichever he is, was married in infancy to the daughter of a Spanish Duke - as only half an hour earlier, the brothers were both married to two local Venetian girls.
Being forced to leave their new wives behind, the Gondoliers go off to Barataria, set up a republican kingdom, where all are equal, and they reign in a coalition government - but surely this can't go on forever?
| The Duke of Plaza Toro | Roy Preston |
| Luiz (his attendant) | Phil Holmes |
| Don Alhambra (the Grand Inquisitor) | Glynn McKay |
| The Duchess of Plaza Toro | Sara Bucknall |
| Casilda (her daughter) | Louise Cockerill |
| Marco Palmieri | Gerry Bremner |
| Giuseppe Palmieri | Mark Ellis |
| Antonio | Howard Brooks |
| Francesco | John Aldam |
| Giorgio | Leslie Dumbell |
| Annibale | Ewen Stamp |
| Gianetta | Natasha Bennett |
| Tessa | Lesley Wittgreffe |
| Fiametta | Rosalind Atkins |
| Giulia | Geneva Downes |
| Vittoria | Lucy Pakes |
| Marion Banyard |
Mareth Bassett
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Judy Cairns
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| Alison Dumbell |
Carol Flatres
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Greta Kerridge
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| Sheila Martin |
Lucy Miller
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Joan Parish
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| Judy Read |
Debbie Rogers
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Pascaline Sarginson
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| Sylvia Towell |
Vanessa Westley
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Jin-An Wu
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| David Atkins |
Ralph Chapman
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Jason Davis
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| Paul Edwards |
David Fleming-Brown
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David Hayhow
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| Ian Hunter |
Peter Meredith
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Bob Newton
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| Inez (the King's Foster-mother) | Judy Read |
| Guard | Margaret Follett |
Looked like this:
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The cast assembled in the second half, at Barataria |
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The Gondoliers and Contadine have a stand-off
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Tessa, Giuseppe, Casilda, Marco and Gianetta try to work out how to resolve their marital problems |
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Tessa and Giuseppe aren't happy
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Although Marco and Gianetta are |
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Marco and Giuseppe beseech the Don to help
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Giuseppe and Tessa have cheered up |
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Luiz, Casilda, the Duchess and the Duke
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The Duke and Duchess - are they singing the National Anthem of Barataria? |
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Casilda is over-joyed to discover she's a queen
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Luiz is less pleased |
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Tessa and Gianetta are hopeful
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Marco and Giuseppe ponder |
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And the ice cream salesman makes his entrance again
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