A Midwinter's Tale
In the Bleak Midwinter
The drama. The passion. The intrigue... And the rehearsals haven't even started.
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
Direction
Screenplay
Cast
Michael Maloney
Joe Harper (Hamlet)
Richard Briers
Henry Wakefield (Claudius, the Ghost, and the Player King)
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Hetta Charnley
Molly
Joan Collins
Margaretta D'Arcy
Nicholas Farrell
Tom Newman (Laertes, Fortinbras, and messengers)
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Mark Hadfield
Vernon Spatch (Polonius, Marcellus, and First Gravedigger)
Gerard Horan
Carnforth Greville (Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Horatio, and Barnardo)
Celia Imrie
Fadge
Jennifer Saunders
Nancy Crawford
Julia Sawalha
Nina Raymond (Ophelia)
Jimmy Yuill
Composer
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Roger Lanser
Cinematographer
