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THE AMAZON
BY
Daniel Clarkson, Jefferson Turner and Richard Hurst
STARRING
Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner
PANTOMIMES
held a party. A wicked fairy burst in - angry as she hadn’t been invited - and cast an
evil spell over the baby girl. She said that when the child was 16 she would prick
herself on a needle and die. So the king ordered for all the needles and spinning
wheels to be removed from the kingdom. Sleeping
Jack beauty
Jack lived with his mother; they were very poor. And The
All they had was their cow, Daisy, and they decided to sell her so they
Beanstalk Cinderella lived with her stepmother and stepsisters who made her do all
could eat. Jack upset his mother by selling the cow for some beans,
but these soon turn out to be magic - and grow into a huge beanstalk... the housework. One day the Prince invited all the young ladies in the land
to a ball so he could choose a wife. The two stepsisters were very excited.
Cinderella dreamed of going to the dance, but her stepsisters teased her by
saying a maid could never attend a ball...
Dick
nothing like he expected and he couldn’t find any streets paved with gold.
going to make Aladdin a wealthy merchant. Really he wanted Aladdin to go
Whittington
and find a wonderful oil lamp from a magic cave. Aladdin agreed and went to
the cave and found the lamp, only to realize he was trapped in the cave…
Aladdin
Snow Wh
Princess Snow White, who had hair as black as ebony, skin as white as ite
snow, and lips as red as blood, lived with her stepmother who had a Jeff doesn’t think this is a panto, but we’ll include it to keep Dan happy.
special mirror. The mirror told her each day that she was the fairest in Scrooge was a greedy and stingy businessman who had no place in his life
the land, until one day, the mirror replied that Snow White is the fairest for kindness or charity. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge was visited by his old
business partner’s ghost who came to warn him to change his ways. Three
s
of them all. She then flies into a rage...
A Ch ristma more ghosts visited him – each one encouraging Scrooge to change…
Carol
CAST Jefferson Turner
Firstly, Jeff can not describe how privileged he feels to be back on stage
Daniel Clarkson
after all theatre suddenly stopped for most of 2020. He would like to
thank each one of you, deeply, for supporting the show, after such a
challenging year for us all.
According to Wikipedia, Daniel is a “British comedy actor, playwright and
director with two Olivier nominations and a Blue Peter Badge.” Graduating
Right, back to more how a Biog in a programme SHOULD start: Jeff has
from Bretton Hall, Daniel is probably best known for being one half of the
been touring all over the world, with Dan, for almost 15 years. They
comedy double act “Dan and Jeff”, renowned across the globe for their
have enjoyed UK tours, Australasian tours, US tours, West End and Off-
“Potted” stage shows as well as an 18-month residence in the CBBC office
Broadway seasons and two Olivier nominations. Jeff’s lifelong dream
as their in-house presenters. With four shows now under his belt (Potted
came true last year, as he opened Potted Potter’s residency in Las Vegas!
Potter, Potted Pirates, Potted Panto and the latest Potted Sherlock, which
Jeff wrote Potted Potter with Dan, as well as Potted Pirates and Potted
Daniel co-wrote with his brother Tom), he has received both audience
Panto, and the two have racked up over 3,000 stage hours together. And
and critical acclaim, having had sell-out seasons in both London’s West
counting!
End and New York, and completed several successful international tours
including a residency for Potted Potter in Las Vegas where it won the Best
Jeff has been on TV with Dan far more regularly than seems sensible on
of Las Vegas award for “Best New Production”.
shows such as Blue Peter (BBC); Richard & Judy (C4); The Slammer (BBC);
and Big Brother’s Little Brother (C4). They were even household names
His latest creation The Crown Live - a comic parody of the Netflix series
between 2008-2010, when they were the in-house presenters in the CBBC Office (BBC), messing around
The Crown – opened last year to high praise and Daniel feels it’ll be
in living rooms Nationwide! In 2017, Jeff trained with Second City when they popped over to London,
a sure-fire way to fast track his knighthood! Between wizarding and
to develop and sharpen his improvisation skills; which may be needed more than normal in this very
writing, Daniel also appears as Puppet Steve in the anarchic late night
unpredictable year!
comedy chat show Mr. Thing, which has enjoyed sell out runs at both the Edinburgh and Brighton comedy
festivals. Daniel has made regular appearances on BBC, ITV and Channel 4 - writing, performing and
Jeff is so excited to be spending the Festive Season at The Garrick, and wishes you all a VERY Merry
directing his unique brand of condensed comedy, and spent lockdown having his dining room converted
Christmas, a far Happier New Year and maybe less Humbugs than usual.
into a TV studio, so he could puppeteer and perform The Right Honourable Judge Martin Fudge in Monster
Court a new show for CBBC. He was also in the British soap opera Coronation
Feel free to say hi @ACTORJEFF
Street (ITV) a couple of times ... (he didn’t know
how to fit that in but his mum said “he really
should”.)
CHARLOTTE PAYNE FAIRY & ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER Simon Scullion SET DESIGNER
Trained at Wimbledon School of Art and was a Theatre Design Finalist for the Linbury Prize.
Training: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts (BA Musical Theatre) and CBS Most recent credits include: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (Apollo and tour), Showstopper! (Apollo) and Out There on Fried Meat Ridge Road (Trafalgar
dance. Charlotte is a musical theatre actor from Essex. She began performing Studios). Other theatre credits include The Father (Belgrade Theatre, Coventry), The Leisure Society (Trafalgar Studios), Potted Panto (Vaudeville),
with the West End Kids at prestigious events such as West End Live and at Murder on the Nile (UK tour), Alarms and Excursions (UK tour), Peppa Pig Live (tour), Lazytown Live (tour), Quartermaine’s Terms (UK tour), Quartet
(UK tour), Larkrise (tour) and Elizabeth and Raleigh: Late but Live (Edinburgh Festival). simonscullion.co.uk
venues such as the Royal Albert Hall and the O2 arena. Recent credits include
Squad Goals (Dagenham and Redbridge FC); The Pirate Queen (London
Coliseum); Lead Singer for Norwegian Cruise Line; Soloist for RYCA: Refresh.
Recording Credits: Flight of Passage and Na’vi River Journey (Walt Disney Nicky Bunch COSTUME DESIGNER
World); Hoods: A Musical by Drew Jaymeson and Kevan Frost and Shoot… Bang Nicky trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama She has designed many productions for LAMDA & Mountview drama schools.
by John Victor in association with Perfect Pitch. Charlotte is excited to return to Design credits include: The Little Witch (The Place), Egusi Soup (Bury St Edmunds & UK Tour), Faust (E15), Fragile (Coventry Belgrade),
the Potted Panto family for another year of fun. @CHAR_PAYNE Shiverman (Theatre 503), When Did You Last See My Mother (Trafalgar Studios 2), The Long Goodbye (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs), Guys &
Dolls (Cambridge Arts Theatre), Well (Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue), Frankenstein (Sheffield Crucible & Tour). nickybunch.co.uk
Tim Mascall
CER
LIGHTING DESIGNER
West End credits include: Why The Whales Came (Pinter); Well (Apollo); Ruby Wax: Losing It (Duchess); The Vagina Monologues (Wyndhams); Potted
Panto (Garrick and Vaudeville); Eric And Little Ern (Vaudeville); Derren Brown: Enigma (Adelphi); Evening Of Wonder (Garrick); Infamous (Palace);
Miracle (Palace); and Something Wicked This Way Comes (Old Vic). Other London credits include: Breakfast With Jonny Wilkinson, Ruby Wax: Out
ABOUT THE PRODU
Of Her Mind, Fully Committed and Without You (Menier Chocolate Factory) The Importance Of Being Earnest (Regents Park Open Air) and Invincible
(St James). Further UK credits include: Lionboy (Complicite), Long Day’s Journey Into Night, A Taste Of Honey, Kill Jonny Glendenning and Faith
James Seabright
Healer (Royal Lyceum Edinburgh), The Real Thing and Good Grief (Theatre Royal Bath), Pavilion; Orpheus Descending; and Lord Of The Flies (Theatre
Clwyd). Opera credits include: The Cunning Little Vixen (Garsington); Aida (Opera Holland Park); The Gamblers and Peter Grimes (Royal Festival PRODUCER
Hall). timmascall.com
James Seabright is an Olivier Award winning commercial theatrical producer and general manager. Current
productions include Adam Kay’s live shows based on his million-copy bestseller This Is Going To Hurt (Secret
Tom Lishman SOUND DESIGNER Diaries Of A Junior Doctor) and festive follow-up Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by
Richard Hough and Ben Morales Frost, the immersive Trainspotting Live based on Irvine Welsh’s classic novel, The
Tom’s work in the West End has included Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, The Caretaker, Pete And Dud Come Again, Medea, I Love You You’re Crown – Live! by Daniel Clarkson, Clownfish’s Attenborough and his Animals, Richard Shelton’s Sinatra: Raw, Iain
Perfect Now Change, Brief Lives, Twelve Angry Men, The Gin Game, Taking Sides, A Letter of Resignation, Life Support , The Hothouse, The Rivals, Vita and Dale - All Talk, FRIEND (The One With Gunther) by Brendan Murphy, Potted Potter by Dan and Jeff, and The National
Virginia, Hobson’s Choice and Rope. He designed sound for Ashes to Ashes (Royal Court), The Great Game: Afghanistan, Not Black & White, Broken Glass, Trust Fan Club by Helen Wood. Previous London productions include the UK premiere of An Act Of God by David
Women Power & Politics and Greta Garbo Came To Donegal (Tricycle), I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (Royal Opera House Linbury Javerbaum, Cinderella by Luke Barnes and Not Too Tame, Showstopper! The Improvised Musical (Ambassadors,
Studio), A Tainted Dawn, Bill Shakespeare’s Italian Job, A British Subject and Potted Sherlock and Shakespeare Untold (Edinburgh Festival), The Farm, Apollo, Criterion and Lyric), Loot by Joe Orton (Park and Watermill), The Boys In The Band by Mart Crowley (Park
Those Magnificent Men, The Falling Sky (New Perspectives), To Town Hall Cherubs (BAC), and five seasons of operas for Grange Park Opera, as well as and Vaudeville), Our Boys by Jonathan Lewis (Duchess), The Lion by Benjamin Scheuer (St James), Eric and Little
productions for pantomimes and numerous repertory theatres. Tom has created almost 60 sound designs for Chichester Festival Theatre. Ern (Vaudeville), and Potted Sherlock with Dan and Jeff. James chairs the board of the King’s Head Theatre, is a
founder and board member of the League of Independent Producers, and is an associate artist of Wilton’s Music
Hall. His first book, So You Want to Be a Theatre Producer, was published in 2010 by Nick Hern Books.
LEIGH DAVIES SOUND DESIGNER
Leigh Davies’ work includes The Worst Witch (Royal & Derngate, UK tour and West End - Olivier Award 2020 - Best Family Entertainment); As You Like
It (Queen’s, Hornchurch/National Theatre); Potted Panto (Southwark Playhouse); 1st Luv (The Big House, London); Jack and the Beanstalk (Queen’s,
Hornchurch); Mancoin (Vault Festival); Spring Awakening (Hope Mill); Cover My Tracks; Monologues; King Lear; and 24-Hour Musicals (Old Vic, London);
Edward II (Cambridge Arts); The Two Gentleman of Verona (International tour/Shakespeare’s Globe); Alice in Winterland; A Christmas Carol; The Wind
in The Willows; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; and The Snow Gorilla (Rose, Kingston); Hetty Feather (UK tour, West End and Asolo, Florida); and For Seabright Productions Limited: Office Palace Theatre,
Bonnie and Clyde The Musical (Arts Ed). As Associate Sound Designer: Matilda the Musical (West End, UK Tour, Australia and UK Assistant for Broadway); Producer James Seabright Shaftesbury Ave,
and Wah! Wah! Girls (Kneehigh/Sadler’s Wells). Associate Producer & General Manager Johnny Wood London W1D 5AY
Production Coordinator Luke Gledsdale Telephone 020 7439 1173
Marketing Associate Kate Farrell Email office@seabright.org
Web seabright.org
Phil Innes COMPOSER
Phil is a composer, sound-designer and sound-artist. Much of his practice exists in the space where these disciplines overlap. He is a BA Music graduate
from Falmouth University. Credits include The Alchemist and The Trench (Collective Arts); Barabas (Hall for Cornwall); Walk With Me (Kneehigh);
Everyman (Tangle); The Magic Beanstalk (Light Theatre); Potted Potter; Potted Pirates; and Potted Sherlock; How Long Would You Wait?; The Cold Truth; Production Acknowledgements
Poison; Enduring Lies; and Lonely Not Alone (Effervescent). Phil is a member of the Ludi Electric Guitar Quartet.
Publicity Photographer Geraint Lewis Original Costume Makers Carmen Arquelladas
Artwork and Programme Design Graphic Design London Anna Dixon
BEN ANDERSON
Original Costume Helen Stewart Tsubi du
COMPANY STAGE MANAGER and Props Designer Laura Gray
Original Props Maker Rebecca J Hallan Jenni Joule
Ben is a theatre director and stage manager. He is a Junior Associate of the King’s Head Theatre, and has
Alexandra Morton
worked around the UK at venues including the King’s Head Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth, The Vaults, The
Costume Assistant May Clyne
Other Palace and The Royal College of Music. His most recent stage management credits include Potted Panto
(Southwark Playhouse) and Trainspotting Live (Edinburgh Fringe 2019).
A POTTED HISTORY
OF THE POTTED
S HOWS For Nimax Theatres
2005
Dan and Jeff are commissioned to create a five-minute street
show recapping the plot of the first five Harry Potter books,
for performance to the queues waiting for the release of the
sixth book. Proprietors Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer Ticketing Administrator Callum O’Rourke
Trade And Group Sales
2012
Potted Potter is nominated for the Best Entertainment and
Chairman Max Weitzenhoffer Administrator Rafal Goszczurny
Family Olivier Award and Potted Panto is nominated for
2006
Potted Potter is born as the street show expands to an hour- Chief Executive Nica Burns Financial Accountant Wayne Young
long performance in which the first six books are parodied. Best New Comedy in the Whatsonstage Awards. Potted Potter makes Management Accountant Lizzie Nathanielsz
The shows premieres on August 4 at Edinburgh’s Zoo Southside venue. its North American premiere in Toronto at the Panasonic Theatre. Executive Director Joan Moynihan Assistant Accountant Renata Avila
Forging a partnership with producer James Seabright (under the new Following Toronto, Potted Potter opens off-Broadway at New York City’s Commercial Director Laurence Miller Accounts Payable Officer Eleanor Brooker
company Potted Productions) and director Dominic Knutton. Little Shubert Theatre, followed by eight weeks in Chicago. The show Finance Director Tony Yoe Payroll & Finance Assistant Kirsty Gibson
Dan and Jeff premiere a new version of the show at Pleasance Islington tours across Australasia and South Africa. Operations Director Geoff Summerton EA To Nica Burns Stephanie Creed
Head Of Finance Fay Diggins PA To Nica Burns Verdiana Pollano
in October.
Consultant George Biggs Marketing Manager Antonia Perkins
2008 and London. Dan and Jeff also launch their second show,
More U.K. touring, again playing the Edinburgh Fringe Jeff also premiere Potted Sherlock at the Edinburgh Fringe, its London Box Office Operations Manager Sarah Topp Hopkins Architects
transfer over the festive season. Trade Desk Supervisor Daniel Swan Consultant Doctor Dr Richard Dawood
Potted Pirates. Group Sales Coordinator Ben Robinson
Ticketing Systems Coordinator Caroline Monk
2009 Dan and Jeff hand over Potted Potter to a new cast,
Owing to their commitments as Children’s BBC presentets,
David Ahmad and John Hellier, who take it on tour to Adelaide Fringe,
2016 and after a three year break Potted Panto returns to the West
Potted Sherlock makes it US touring debut across the pond,
Melbourne Comedy Festival, and New Zealand Comedy Festival. Dan and
Jeff wrestle the show back from them for a third and final Christmas run
For GARRICK Theatre
End for Christmas in a new venue – the Garrick Theatre.
at Trafalgar Studios.
2011
Potted Potter returns for another tour, starting at Bury St.
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCER UNIT MANAGER DIRECTOR
Martin Clarkson Jamie Barron Tom Clarkson
VT PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
James Botting Emma Chisolm
PROJECT MANAGER
Tom O’Connell
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