A West Yorkshire Playhouse production
BARNBOW CANARIES
By Alice Nutter
Barnbow Canaries was first performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse on 15 June 2016.
BARNBOW CANARIES
By Alice Nutter
| Cast | |
| Sparrow | Kristin Atherton |
| Parkin | Dominic Gately |
| Victor | Peter McGovern |
| Florence | Jo Mousley |
| Swifty | Jade Ogugua |
| Agnes | Colette O’Rourke |
| Edith | Tilly Steele |
| Bertie/Doctor | Joseph Tweedale |
| Creatives | |
| Writer | Alice Nutter |
| Director | Kate Wasserberg |
| Designer | Mark Bailey |
| Lighting Designer | Katy Morison |
| Composer, Musical Director & Sound Designer | Dyfan Jones |
| Movement Director | Lucy Hind |
| Fight Director | Rachel Bown-Williams of Rc-Annie Ltd |
| Casting Director | Kay Magson CDG |
| Assistant Director | |
| (JMK Leverhulme Bursary 2016 Recipient) | Alasdair Pidsley |
| Production | |
| Company Stage Manager | Richard Pattison |
| Stage Manager | Michelle Booth |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Sarah Lyndon |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Rachel Robertson |
| Community chorus | |
| Sarah Archer | Emma McGrath |
| Carole Bailey | Saphron Middleton |
| Lucy Bailey | Ashlie Molloy |
| Becci Barker | Samantha Moorhouse |
| Trish Burnley | Rosie Mulhearn |
| Patricia Delbridge | Tracy Murphy |
| Keesha Ennis | Lisa Parker |
| Rowena Godfrey | Amy Paterson |
| Georgie Grant | Maggie Pearce |
| Kathryn Green | Ruth Pinkney |
| Yve Handley | Emily Ramsden |
| Christine Hines | Amanda Richardson |
| Andrea Holgate | Janet Sewell |
| Shelly James | Sally Smith |
| Anna Keat | Sharon Spink |
| Helen Kerrigan | Anne Wallace |
| Julie Kilburn | Louise Watts |
| Linda Lewis | Helen Welch |
| Maureen Lilywhite | Pat White |
| Jasmine Long | Claudine Williams |
| Gill Marsden |
Cast Biographies
Kristin Atherton | Sparrow
Kristin is a LAMDA graduate. This is her third time performing at West Yorkshire Playhouse.
Theatre credits include: The Hard Problem, Three Winters, Harold Pinter: A Celebration (National Theatre); Twelfth Night (Merely Players); Glory Dazed (SOHO Theatre); Mansfield Park (Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds); Mary Shelley, Brontë (Shared Experience – National Tour); The Importance of Being Earnest (English Theatre of Vienna); The Devil You Know: Lost Soul Music (Pleasance Theatre); Enemy of the People, Confessions of a City, Much Ado About Nothing, Iphigenia (Sheffield Crucible Theatre).
Television credits include: Rocket’s Island (CBBC); Doctors (BBC); Waterloo Road (BBC).
Film credits include: K-Shop (White Lantern Films); Second Sight (Burning Flag); Absent (dreamthinkspeak).
Radio credits include: The Weapon (BBC Radio Drama); I Love You S.W (BBC Radio Sheffield).
Audiobooks credits include: This Secret We’re Keeping, The Last Days of Summer, My Map of You, Bitter Fruits (Penguin/Random House audio).
Dominic Gately | Parkin
Dominic trained at the