‘Rapunzel, Rapunzel let down your hair’
This festive season, join us on a journey through the rolling hills and deep dark forests of Italy as we embark on an adventure packed with music, magic pigs and plenty of surprises!
Discovered as a baby, Rapunzel is found and brought up by Mother Gothel, a clever herbalist known for her magical healing powers. As Rapunzel grows into a spirited and loving young woman, Mother Gothel locks her away in a tall tower deep in the forest to keep her safe.
Surrounded by thorny vines, Rapunzel’s dreams of escape seem doomed forever until she meets the wandering Tuscan Prince Patrizio. Together the couple hatch a plan to run away, but their happily-ever-after is ruined when they are separated by an evil trick. Alone and lost in the forest, will Rapunzel and Patrizio ever find each other again?
Rapunzel by Annie Siddons was first presented by Kneehigh Theatre at Battersea Arts Centre in December 2006.
Age Guidance: Recommended 4+
Running time approximately 1 hour 50 minutes including a 20 minute interval
Principal Sponsor
Director Lucy Betts
Composer and Sound Designer Tom Attwood
Designer Isobel Nicolson
Lighting Designer Alex Musgrave
Movement Director Adrian Quinton
Production Manager Nick Flintoff
Head of Wardrobe Emily Barratt
Wardrobe Assistants Ros Kitson and Jess Davis
Sound Operator Thom Townsend
Company Stage Manager Cat Pewsey
Deputy Stage Manager Cat Mackenzie
Assistant Stage Manager Alastair Day and Natalie Toney
Signed Integrated Performers Jennifer Lisky and Lixi Chivas
Sign Integration Consultant Mary-Jayne Russell de Clifford
Audio Describer Lixi Chivas
Miiya Alexandra
Mother Gothel / Duchess
Miiya Alexandra trained at the Arts Educational Schools London and The Royal College of Music.
Theatre credits include: Amélie the Musical (Criterion Theatre); The King and I (London Palladium, UK/International Tour); Alice In Wonderland (Mercury Theatre); Aladdin (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch); Jack and The Beanstalk (Watford Palace Theatre); Metropolis (The Ye Olde Rose and Crowne) for which Miiya was nominated for an Off West End Theatre Award for Best Female in a Musical.
Film credits include: The King and I - Live from the London Palladium.
Emma Barclay
Pierluigi Ambrosi / Baldozi
Emma trained at Drama Centre London and Cambridge University.
Theatre credits include: The Windsors Endgame (West End); One Million Tiny Plays About Britain (Jermyn Street Theatre and Watermill Theatre); Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Wilton’s Music Hall and UK tour); As You Like It (Watermill Theatre); Honk! (UK Tour); Babe the Sheep Pig (Polka Theatre and UK tour); Doctor Faustus, Comedy of Errors (Cambridge Arts Theatre).
Jess Lobo
Prezze
After recently graduating from the
Actor-Musicianship course at the Guildford School of Acting this year, Jess is
delighted to be making her professional debut at The Watermill Theatre this
Christmas.
Credits whilst training: Inez in The Baker's Wife, Alice in Tipping The Velvet, and Touchstone in As You Like It.
Roddy Lynch
Paulo / Umberto / Shark
Roddy trained at Rose Bruford College on the BA (Hons) Actor Musicianship course, graduating in 2019.
Theatre credits include: Kinky Boots (New Wolsey Theatre & Queen’s Theatre Hornchuch); What the Ladybird Heard (The Palace Theatre, West End); A Christmas Carol (The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath); Romeo & Juliet (Box Clever Theatre, UK Tour); Urinetown and American Idiot (Old Joint Stock Theatre); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Garden Shakespeare Company).
Roddy would like to thank his family, friends and his girlfriend for their unflagging love and support!
Tilly-Mae Millbrook
Rapunzel
Tilly-Mae is delighted to be back at the Watermill for Christmas and would like to dedicate this performance to her mum, Sally.
Training: Rose Bruford College, Drama Centre London and The National Youth Music Theatre (NYMT)
Previous Watermill credits include: A Little Night Music (2017) and A Christmas Carol (2020)
Credits: All My Sons (Queens Theatre Hornchurch/New Wolsey); The Beggars Opera (Selladoor/Queen’s Theatre Barnstaple), Morgue (Mercury, Colchester); Wind in the Willows (Kew Gardens); The Emperor’s New Clothes, Wind in the Willows, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel (Derby Theatre); The Crucible, Blonde Bombshells of 1943, Summer Holiday and Blithe Spirit (Pitlochry Festival Theatre); Midnight (Union Theatre, Southwark); Baba Yaga (Little Angel, Islington); The Sonnet Walks (Guildford Shakespeare Company); The Secret Seven (Storyhouse, Chester and Spring Awakening (Curve).
Loris Scarpa
Patrizio
Loris Scarpa graduated from Rose Bruford College in 2021 from the Actor Musicianship course and has since worked in Television, theatre, voiceover and Education.
Credits include: Doctors (BBC); SAS: Rogue Heroes (BBC); Company of Heroes (Relic Entertainment); Gray Trilogy (Shouting is Funny).
As well as this, Loris teaches music at the School of Rhythm, a school in London specialising in Drums and Percussion.