Cast & Creatives

CastJoey as a foal head – Sarah Mardel

Joey as a foal heart – Ellie Burrow or Jack Parker

Joey as a foal hind – Jack parker or Ellie Burrow

Joey head – Ruth Rogers or David Grewcock or Stephen Harper

Joey heart – Thomas Wilton or Shaun McKee or Stuart Angel

Joey hind – Matthew Forbes or Eily Cooper or Thomas Goodridge

Topthorn head – Curtis Jordan or David Grewcock or Stephen Harper

Topthorn heart – Nicholas Karimi or Stuart Angell or Shaun McKee

Topthorn hind – Matt Costain or Emily Cooper or Thomas Goodridge

Coco – Jack Parker and David Walmsley

Heine – Christian Jenner and Mat Ruttle

Arthur Narracott/Sergeant Thunder – Nigel Betts

Captain Nicholls – Nicholas Bishop

John Greig – Joshua Blake

Nurse Annie Gilbert – Hannah Boyde

Paulette – Pascale Burgess

Chapman Carter/Col. Strauss/Soldat Schmidt – Ewen Cummins

David Taylor – Danny Dalton

Unteroffizier Klebb/Sentry Shaw – Salvatore D’Aquila

Geordie – Stephen Harper, Nicholas Karimi or Shaun McKee

Dr Wilhelm Schweyk/Sgt Fine – Christian Jenner

Emilie – Sarah Mardel

Albert Narracott – Jack Monaghan

Sergeant Allan/Johann Schnabel/Soldat Manfred – Malcolm Ridley

Kavallerie Hauptmann / Friedrich Muller – Patrick Robinson

Song Man – Saul Rose

Thomas Bone – Mat Ruttle

Captain Stewart/Rudi – William Rycroft

Fiddle Player – Eliot Short

Priest/Gefreiter Karl/Veterinary Officer Martin – Anthony Shuster

Rose Narracott – Nicola Stephenson

Billy Narracott/Ludwig – David Walmsley

Ted Narracott – Andy Williams

The Goose – Emily Cooper or Stephen Harper or Curtis Jordan

Creative

Based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo

Adapted by Nick Stafford

In association with Handspring Puppet Company

Directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris

Designer/Drawings - Rae Smith

Puppet Design and Fabrication - Basil Jones & Adrian Kohler

Lighting Design by Paule Constable

Director of Movement and Horse Choreography - Toby Sedgwick

Puppetry Directors - Basil Jones & Adrian Kohler

Video Design by Leo Warner and Mark Grimmer for Fifty-Nine Productions Ltd

Music by Adrian Sutton

Songmaker - John Tams

Sound Designer - Christopher Shutt

Puppetry Consultant - Mervyn Millar

Associate Director - Alex Sims

Associate Puppetry Director - Finn Caldwell

Resident Director - Kathryn Ind

Puppetry Associate - Toby Olie

Movement & Horse Choreography Assistant - Robin Guiver

Music Director - Martin Lowe

Casting by Lucy Jenkins CDG & Sooki McShane CDG

Original Casting by Alastair Coomer CDG

Company Voice & Dialect Work - Jacquie Crago

Fight Director - Kate Waters

German and French Language Coach - Simon Scardifield

Production Photographer - Simon Annand