CAST LIST!
We’re full of beans to be heading INTO THE WOODS with this fantastic cast! 🌽🐮🥖🌲
Thank you to everyone who auditioned and showcased just how much talent and passion there is in our local theatre community!
🎭 If you’re interested in auditioning for any of the roles still available, we’d love to hear from you! Just reach out to info@odditytheatre.org.uk
Narrator/Mysterious Man - Role available
Narrator: Immersed in a world of stories, bringing characters to life right before our eyes. Good storyteller who relates directly to the audience. Mainly spoken role with some singing lines.
Mysterious Man: A mischievous vagrant and nosy meddler. He is a good-natured protector and observer.
Baker - DAVEY EVANS
Determined, insecure, protective of his family. He has never faced his fears and stepped beyond what is safe and familiar, until he ventures into the woods to go after what he wants.
Baker’s Wife - LEONIE MACASLIN
Determined, strong, clever and warm hearted. Is a loving and supportive wife and has deep desires to be a mother.
Witch - TIRION COWELL
Self-serving, possessive, sarcastic, vain, charismatic, strong character. Overprotective mother to Rapunzel, blind to any damage she has done her. She is blunt and ruthless; bold and brave, and believes she is always right. She tires easily of the others that she has to share this story and experience with.
Cinderella - LIBERTY WILLIAMS
Earnest, kind-hearted, constantly mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters. Is determined and has an inner strength which she discovers during her time in the woods, and at the palace.
Little Red Riding Hood - GRACE EGGINTON
A spoiled young girl who is strong-willed, quick-witted, fiery, fearless, yet youthful and naive.
Rapunzel - BEX MOULD
Lonely and sheltered girl with a controlling mother (the Witch). who yearns to see and experience the world.
Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince - MORGAN HAMES
Wolf: Hungry, insatiable, seductive. Walking a fine line between charming, intriguing; sly, cunning.
Prince: Vain and gorgeous, endlessly confident. Not content with what he has, or with staying still, but always looking for another adventure/story. Of all the characters in the show, the Princes are the two that have one foot more firmly in the fairy tale, not in what is real.
Rapunzel’s Prince - TOM BISHOP-COLES
Just as vain and gorgeous as his Prince brother, he is always chasing the newest, most exciting endeavour. Also of the same flawed character. Striving to beat his brother.
Jack - ELLIE BIGGS
Naive, energetic, bright-eyed, eager to please, genuine/sincere, impulsive. Jack may be young and impulsive but finally starts to grow up from the experiences that happen to him during the show.
Milky White (Puppeteer) - CHARLOTTE CASE
A cow that has seen better days but is best friends with Jack.
Jack’s Mother - CLAIRE DALTON
Jack’s protective, single mother. Hard working, tough, and weary of her son’s naivety.
Cinderella’s Stepmother - AUDREY PEARCE
The mean-spirited, greedy, demanding, ruthless stepmother of Cinderella.
Florinda - CLAIRE WARREN
Cinderella’s stepsister who is “beautiful of face but black of heart”. Follows in her mother’s footsteps of abusing Cinderella. Over the top, brash character.
Lucinda - EMMA PARRISH
Cinderella’s stepsister who is “beautiful of face but black of heart”. Follows in her mother’s footsteps of abusing Cinderella. Over the top, brash character.
Cinderella’s Mother/Granny/Giant’s Voice - ANITA BERRIDGE
Cinderella’s Mother: Deceased with her soul guarding and aiding her daughter from a tree. She is an ethereal and angelic image created by Cinderella’s memory.
Granny: Red Riding Hood’s feisty, rough, bold grandmother. Looks like the sweetest little Granny in the woods, but slaughters and skins the wolf with ease.
Giant’s Voice: Loud, angry, offstage voice.
Cinderella’s Father - Role available
Weak, lost; in his grief has chosen the easiest path in life; a coward and neglectful father to Cinderella. Follows the desires and needs new wife and stepdaughters blindly.
Steward - Role available
A man-servant who is used to doing whatever he has to solve a problem. His only care is to please his master (Cinderella’s Prince) or the strongest personality in the room. Conniving, callous and cowardly.