The Adventures of Awful Knawful
A Play for Children
20th December 1978
The Warehouse Theatre, RSC
By Peter Flannery and Mick Ford
This was a hilarious and very successful Christmas show written for the RSC and first performed at the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, London on 20 December 1978.
The play was published by Eyre Methuen in the Methuen Young Drama series. It can be purchased from Amazon here.
Creative Team
| Directors | John Caird & Howard Davies |
| Designer | Chris Dyer |
| Assitant to the Designer | Gilly Hebden |
| Lighting | Brian Wigney & Eddie J. Freed |
| Sound | John A. Leonard |
Cast
| AWFUL KNAWFUL, the bravest man on earth | Richard Derrington |
| PROFESSOR MADCHAT, a nutcase | Nigel Terry |
| GERONIMO, an animal invented by the Professor | Charlotte Cornwall |
| JAKOPO & MARLA, two stupid killers | Rory Edwards & Michelle Copsey |
| DR. KNOTINISHANKI, the greatest memory man on earth | Kenneth McClellan |
| LASSE FEVER, the fastest runner on earth | Charles Wegner |
| CROTON, a zombie | Nicholas le Prevost |
| P.C. McKNEE, *the greatest policeman on earth* | Kenneth McClellan |
| DR. BLOOD, the greatest surgeon on earth | Mike Hall |
| FLORENCE, his nurse | Colin McCormack |
| THE KILLER ROBOT, another of the Professor’s inventions | Mike Hall |
| JASPER & DENNIS, the perfect children | Colin McCormack & Charles Wegner |
| AN ARMY OF KILLER ANTS | Themselves |
| A GIANT SPIDER | Colin McCormack |
| THE KID, a gunslinging desperado | Kenneth McClellan |
| THE SHERIFF, his deadly enemy | Mike Hall |
| A MOUSE | A Mouse |
| A CHOIR OF MAD KILLERS | A Choir of Mad Killers |
| THE MASTER, a maniac | Iain Mitchell/Peter Clough |
Music
| The greatest musicians on earth | Jeremy Barlow, Peter Cameron, Nigel Garvey, Brian Newman, Peter Whittaker |