South Western
by The Wardrobe Ensemble
Supported by Arts Council England
South Western premiered at Tobacco Factory Theatres in July 2018.
Award-winning Bristol company The Wardrobe Ensemble (Education, Education, Education and 1972: The Future of Sex) present an odyssey of revenge from the mean streets of Bristol to the perilous cliffs of Cornwall, via Wookey Hole, the Eden Project and Easton-in-Gordano services.
With a shotgun in one hand and a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch in the other, drenched by rain and facing the final frontier of the wilderness, The Wardrobe Ensemble present an epic tale of blood, guts and cider.
Notorious villains, uneasy alliances, doomed love affairs and thigh-slapping folk music: a spaghetti western with Cornish pasties.
Written and created by the company
Cast
Tom Crosley-Thorne, Tom England, Emily Greenslade, Jesse Jones, Kerry Lovell, Jesse Meadows, Helena Middleton, Ben Vardy
Directed by Stage Manager
Tom Brennan Emily Greenslade
Composer Assistant Stage Manager
Tom Crosley-Thorne Maddy Coward
Design Production photography
Anna Orton Chelsey Cliff
Lighting
Matt Graham
Sound Design
Benjamin Grant
Dramaturg
James Newton
'a riotous wild west homage... as charming – and impossible to categorise – as their previous shows...rivalling Patrick Barlow’s much-loved adaptation of The 39 Steps for theatrical inventiveness.'
★★★ The Guardian
'buckle up, pack your pint as well as your pistol, and get ready for a rip-roaring ride that proves Wardrobe Ensemble are some of the best in the West.'
★★★★ ReviewsHub
To all those to who supported our Kickstarter Campaign, we owe you our deepest gratitude.
This show would not have been possible without you.
Adam Dangoor
Adam Palmer
Andrew Harrison
Anna Orton
Archy de Berker
Betty & Ray Llewellyn
Christopher Elmer-Gorry
David Gholam
David Lockwood
David Morgan
Deans of Ashfields
Dr Philip J Naylor
Elli & Haya Vardy
Emily Rosannah Davis
Emma Smith
Erica Mynard
Grace England
Gregory Baird Frame
Haidee Becker
Henry Jones
Iain Tidbury
Imogen Hughes
Ina Berggren
Isaac Price-Sosner
Jack Drewry
James Brennan
James Dacre
James Ellis
Jenny Etches
Jo Field
John & Julie Middleton
Josh Howells & Harriet Holloway
Joshua Welch
Judith Baker
Judith Dimant
Kate & Nath Reed
Kirren Ben Senivassen
Leah Tozer
Lyrica Singers
Margaret & Gordon Newton
Matthew Neubauer
Naomi Miller
Nicola McPhee
Oliver Bennett & Karen Jones
Olya & Bryan Brown
Philippa Hogg
Rachael Duthie
Richard & Jenny Grant
Richard Perkins
Rob & Adele Barward-Symmons
Rosalind Bull
Rosie Giarratana
Samir Jeraj
Samuel Bull
Shauna Gogerly
Simon Baker
Sophia Walsh
Stephen Robert Black
Steve Roser
The Hanham Family
The Proctor-Lanes
Thomas Fitzmaurice
Tom Fletcher
Wendy Newton