The Festival Youth Production of The Pirates of Penzance on Saturday 05 August 2023 at the Pavilion Arts Centre in Buxton

Production Team

Director - Rachel Harland
Musical Director - Oliver Longstaff
Lighting - Buxton Opera House
Costumes & Safeguarding Officer - Viv Hamilton
Stage Manager - Polly Dobson
Production Support - Sophie Hurst, Heather Fitzgerald, Denis Fitzgerald

Dramatis Personae

Major-General Stanley - Valentin Boterberg
The Pirate King - Hector Cheron
Sam (his Lieutenant) - Ashleigh Hamilton
Frederic (the Pirate Apprentice) - Henry Reed
Sergeant of Police - Darius Fell
Mabel - Sarah Wright
Edith - Louise O’Hanlon
Kate - Emily O’Hanlon
Isabel - Mathilde Keogh
Ruth (a Piratical Maid of all Work) - Phillips Hopkins


Chorus of Pirates, Police and General Stanley’s Daughters

Anoushka Boterberg, Finlay Boterberg, Nancy Buckley, Oliver Buckley, Jack Hallam, Jake Hibbert, Tyler Hibbert, Ted Howe, Sidney Jackson, James Laverick, Michael O’Hanlon, Ida O’Sullivan, Ingrid O’Sullivan, Albert Wakerley, Summer White


Photo: Jane Stokes