• Runtime: 120 minutes
• Director: Charlotte Hukin
• Lighting Design: Amy Bermudez
• Sound Design: Fred Baker | Jude Skeet
• Stage Manager: Jae Marriott
• Wardrobe: Amanda Pearce | Max Bromley
• Prompts: Charlotte Hukin
• Casting Advisors: Kathryn Edwards | Sarah Godwin

• Theatre

by Steven Peros

Sex, drugs and the Charleston!

Based on the true story of a mysterious Hollywood death, The Cat's Meow offers us a fascinating cross section of Jazz Era characters who intersect for one notorious weekend in 1924, on board William Randolph Hearst's luxury yacht.

The guest list includes film stars, writers, lawyers, money-men and the ever present frivolous flappers, but most notable of all, Charlie Chaplin himself, who has his own, more mischievous, ‘recreational’ motives for being on-board

Hollywood wouldn’t be Hollywood if there weren’t a story of illicit love affairs, betrayal, substance abuse, cover-ups and murder. The Cat’s Meow suggests one of the more salacious theories of what might have happened to Movie Mogul, Thomas Ince, leading to his sudden and untimely death.

A stylish and sardonically funny exposé of corrupt Tinsel-town values; this darkly comic morality play is laced with clandestine romance, Hollywood excess, and steadily heating tensions.

Contains reference to drugs and alcohol, scenes of an adult nature, gunshot and loud noises.

CAST

Micah Darmola (William Randolph Hearst)

Mark Anderson (Tom Ince)

Holly Cooke (Marion Davies)

Alison Hope (Elinor Glyn)

Jake Black (Charlie Chaplin)

Rosie Wallace (Louella Parsons)

Ksenia Tsymbal (Margaret Livingstone)

Will White (George Thomas)

Paul Spruce (Joseph Willicombe)

Bernard Whelan (Dr Goodman)

Linda Hoyland (Mrs Goodman / Mrs Ince)

Chloe Davie (Ceilia Moore)

Chloe Martin (Didi Dawson)

GALLERY

REVIEWS

Kev Castle from Nottingham Hospitals Radio

Thomas Levi from Elemental Theatre Company

Tom Morley from EastMidlandsTheatre.com

This amateur production of "The Cat’s Meow" is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk.