Evita

Minack Theatre

May 2009

Director – Wesley Henderson Roe
MD – Shaun Critten
Production Manager – Claire Williams, Eric Williams

BROS returns from Cornwall after a hugely successful sell-out run of Evita at the Minack Theatre. The weather just about held for most of the performances, but ultimately the whole week was a huge success.

The story begins with Eva Perón’s early life, touches on her acting career, and then it takes the viewer through her rise to power and eventual death. It describes the October 17, 1945 protests and rallies that freed Juan Perón from prison (portraying them as having been organized by Evita during the beginnings of Peronism, which some historians now dispute), Perón’s rise to the office of President, Evita’s political partnership with Perón, her domestic and foreign policy, charity work, feminist involvement, and eventual ascent to the position of “Spiritual Leader of the Nation”.

BROS Theatre Company would like to thank Cadence Partnership for their generous support of Evita at the Minack Theatre.

CAST

Eva – Nikki Gerrard
Che – Mark Fallon
Peron – Nigel Cole
Magaldi – Paul Turnbull
Mistress – Claire Smith
Child soloist – James Simpson
Chorus – Sue Astbury, Nicky Bradbury, Lizzie Brignall, Nicky Burgess, Kristen Callaway, Anne Campbell, Anna Colton, Jenny Corbin, Annie Deasy, Cherry Gulati‐straes, Caroline Hayes, Cathy Makepeace, Janet Simpson, Julie Thomas, Camilla Titchmarsh, Sian Walters, Ian Bennett, Charles Halford, Loz Keal, Marcos Marchesoni, Tim Parish, John Pyle, Stuart Turnbull, Mark Wakeford, Simon Willis
Dancers – Georgie Gladwyn, Vicki Harding, Helen Lowe, Kerry Magee, Veronica Maidment, Juliet Manners, Gemma Melhuish, Helen Shore, Gita Singham, Karen Swift, Louise Vinter, Diego Avila, Edz Barrett, Mike Bradbury, Mark Burgess, Bryan Cardus, Guy Chaperlin, Andy Clarke, Michael D’Ambrosio, Marc Evans, Chris Morris, Jonathan Warriss-Simmons
Children – Dylan Calloway, Morgan Calloway, Molly Cole, Noah Colton, Zack Colton, Elizabeth Evans, Mathew Magee, Charlotte Shore, Oliver Shore, Emily Simpson, Jack Simpson

CREW

Assistant MD – Kerry Sampson
Assistant Director – Ian Bennett
Stage Manager – Rachel Jarvis
Lighting – Rob Arundel
Sound – Stuart Vaughan
Costumes – Wendy Godwin
Costumes assistant – Zoe Harvey Lee
Evita’s Dresser – Aemelia Roe
Hair & Make‐up – Louise Turnbull
Front of House & Company Social – Clare Henderson-Roe
Production Assistant – Lottie Walker
Sponsorship – Mark Burgess
Set designer – Wesley Henderson Roe