The Adventures of Awful Knawful
A Play for Children
The Adventures of Awful KnawfulA Play for Children |
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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 TeamDirectors - John Caird & Howard Davies |
CastAWFUL 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 MUSICBy the greatest musicians on earth: Jeremy Barlow |