Trash

1985/86 LTM NATIONAL PANTOMIME
TRASH

The Story

The people of Trash Town, led by Mama Queenie, fight daily to survive down in the Trash, but they're proud and hopeful. Mama Queenie is raising Esmeralda to be a good girl, a worthy wife for Dukie, Mama Queenie's one-son, sent to study abroad. He's returning home when trouble strikes

Trash Town life goes on with the Count of Cross Roads, Lord Bag and Pan, Khus Khus and his Windscreen Brigade, Matty, Zackie and Dora and all the assorted Trashers getting on with it. Meanwhile, up on Ready Heights, King Nuff bolts and bars his door cause he don't like to see the poor, loving only his daughter the Princess Polyester who needs/wants a husband most desperately. So King Nuff offers a reward… Enter the Count of Cross Roads and Lord Bag and Pan, Trashers going where Nuff has forbidden them to tread.

Deceived and distraught, King Nuff unleashes his ultimate weapon—Dutty Dunnie, the dreaded monster. And then!!! And then!!! It all ends happily (more or less).

Cast of Characters
Mama Queenie...... Leonie Forbes/
............................... Dorothy Cunningham
King Nuff ............. Oliver Samuels / Ted Dwyer
Esmeralda.............. Tulip Reid / Diana Hamilton
Dukie..................... David Ellis / Peter Jackson
Princess Polyester ... Fae Ellington / Joan Hutchinson
Lord Bag & Pan .....Volier Johnson/ Colin Anglin
Count Of Cross Roads...... Homer Heron / Aston Jess
Matty................... Joan Hutchinson/Delores Williams
Zacky.................. Silton Townsend / Lenford Salmon
Dora .................. D orothy Cunningham/
..................... .....Myrna Laughton
Khus Khus ....... Michael Nicholson/ Kevin Sinclair

Windscreen Brigade: Andrew Clarke, Sharon Cawley Erica Brown, Iris Hoo Fah

Other Trash Towners: Marcia Brown, Faith Bucknor, Halcyone Samms, Jackie Higgins, Claudia Josephs, Fleurette Harris-Forrest, Robert Clarke, Clive Duncan, Hugh Japhatt, Delroy Rose

Musical Numbers
Act One
Trash
One Hand Alone Can't clap
I Am King Nuff
Wondering
Better, Better Come
We Can Sing
We Nuh Like Fe wuk
Ketch Dem

Act Two
Today A Fe We Day
To Be A Gentleman
Trust Me
We Nuh Fraid
Dukie Come Home
Our Time Is Now.
Finale

The Orchestra
Grub Cooper - Musical Director
Steve Golding - Guitar
Donovan Palmer - Piano
Calvin Cameron - Trombone
Glenroy Plummer - Drums
Dave Wedderburn – Bass