The Pocket Dream - Lichfield Garrick

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Thu 24 Apr 2025 - Sat 03 May 2025

A take on one of Shakespeare's classic plays, co-written by Great British Bake Off and QI star Sandi Toksvig, is to be performed in Staffordshire in a new production. Lichfield Garrick Theatre is to stage a new in-house production of The Pocket Dream from 24 April to 3 May. Written by Toksvig and Elly Brewer, the show takes Shakespeare’s brilliant comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream and wraps it in another comedy about a production that’s going hilariously wrong. Two comedies ‘for the price of one’!

The Pocket Dream will be directed by the Garrick theatre’s Artistic Director, Daniel Buckroyd, who saw the original West End production in 1991 and says he cannot wait to share the fun with Lichfield audiences this spring. Garrick panto legends Sam Rabone and Ben Thornton return for this production with new kid on the block, Jack and the Beanstalk baddie, Joe Feeney. Completing the cast are Tricia Adele Turner, star of multiple West End musicals, Sarah Twomey who’s performed at the RSC and recently featured in Paddington in Peru, and comedy legend Arthur Bostrom, best known for his iconic role in TV’s ‘Allo ‘Allo.



Daniel Buckroyd, who is also the theatre’s Chief Executive, says: "At the Garrick Theatre, we love it when we can bring people together to experience the very best live performance and send them away laughing. So, I was absolutely delighted when Sandi and Elly gave us permission to remount The Pocket Dream. It’s one of the funniest nights in the theatre I’ve ever had, combining wall-to-wall comedy, lightning costume changes, audience participation and a flying stage manager! And we’re excited to have such a fantastic cast joining us for the show, with Tricia, Sarah and comedy legend Arthur joining three of the stars of our legendary Garrick Panto.

"At the Garrick Theatre it’s also really important to us that we provide a platform for young people to showcase their talents, so we’re thrilled to have assembled a company of incredible, local, young performers to join our company as Puck’s hapless fairy helpers. We can’t wait to give them this experience of being part of a professional production and for you to see them in action when the production comes together this April!”



All told, the cast of six will navigate playing a total of 21 roles between them, in what promises to be a chaotic adventure and non-stop action on stage.

The Pocket Dream opens on Thursday 24th April 2025, and runs until Saturday 3rd May 2025, with a BSL-interpreted performance on Saturday 26th April 2025. The theatre welcomes group and school bookings, please call on 01543 412 121 to arrange. For ticket information, show details and to book tickets visit lichfieldgarrick.com/thepocketdream.

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