2012

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Jo Manning, Katharine Levy

Co-starring

Craig Woolsey, Ross Woodhouse, Liam Mandy, Lindani Ndabandaba,

Amy Power, Shaun Warner, Blair Underwoode, Alexis Stokes

In our first year of touring professionally, we debuted three orginal plays:

- SILENT ECHO

- KISSING ANGELS

- SHADOWS IN THE SNOW

as well as our first pantomime tour for schools:

- PUSS IN BOOTS

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Katharine Levy, Liam Mandy

Co-starring

Amy Power, Shaun Warner, Alexis Stokes, Natalie Stops, Amanda Cornwell and John Giller

In our second year of touring, we continued performing:

- KISSING ANGELS

As well as introducing our new saucy comedy:

- LOVE GAMES

We also grew our panto audience with...

- THE WONDERFUL ALADDIN

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Katharine Levy, Liam Mandy

Co-starring

Shaun Warner, Alexis Stokes, Amanda Cornwell, Amy Lunn, Alex Rasberry,

Sophie Drewery, Elizabeth Goram-Smith with Elaine Verweymeren and John Giller

For our third year of touring, we had four productions on the go:

- KISSING ANGELS

- LOVE GAMES

- NO LOOSE ENDS

- ONE WEEK STAND

In pantoland we toured:

- ROBINSON CRUSOE'S BIG ADVENTURE

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Katharine Levy, Liam Mandy

Co-starring

Amy Lunn, Liz Bishopp and John Giller

Our fourth year didn't bring out any new plays, but doubled down on:

- LOVE GAMES

- NO LOOSE ENDS

Our fourth panto tour was something of a 'giant' one:

- JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Katharine Levy

Co-starring

Amy Lunn, Craig Woolsey, Tamsin Stevenson, Lucy Atkins,

Eve Bodenham with Lawrence Ward and John Giller

Year five saw us unleash our first touring 'whodunit' onto the world:

- THE EMPTY STAGE

Meanwhile, for panto we headed over to Neverland:

- PETER PAN

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Katharine Levy

Co-starring

Tamsin Stevenson, Molly Scurrell, Estelle Long with Helen Fullerton and Lawrence Ward

After the success of one 'whodunit,' year seven did a double-whammy:

- THE EMPTY STAGE

- MURDER AT...

and panto hit a high with our largest tour to date:

- ROBIN HOOD

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Katharine Levy

Co-starring

Molly Scurrell, Estelle Long, Liam Mandy, Amy Lunn,

Emily Hewett with Helen Fullerton and John Giller

This year we continued with our best seller:

- THE EMPTY STAGE

and then took a little wooden boy around schools:

- PINOCCHIO

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Katharine Levy, Liam Mandy

Co-starring

Emily Hewett, Bethany Edwards, Annie Larkin, Eva Mason and John Giller

Complimenting our darker play, we introduced a comedy set in a cake shop:

- THE EMPTY STAGE

- THE LAST CRUMB.

before having an 'unbirthday' with:

- ALICE IN WONDERLAND

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Liam Mandy

Co-starring

Emily Hewett, Annie Larkin, Elizabeth Goram-Smith,

Estelle Long, Kimberleigh Ridgeon, Lauren Bryant, Emily Prince

Due to Covid-19, our tour was cut short, but we managed to get a couple of performances in:

- THE EMPTY STAGE

- LOVE GAMES

We did start the year with something a little different, two Murder Mystery evenings!

- FROM RUSSIA, WITH GOLDENLIPS (a James Bond Themed Mystery)

- SPICE UP YOUR DEATH (a Spice Girls Mystery)

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Liam Mandy

Co-starring

Emily Prince, Vanessa McAuley, Anna Ryan, Georgia Summers and John Giller

Still suffering from the Covid-19 lockdowns, this was our quietest year but we did manage to get back in theatres towards the end:

- THE LAST CRUMB.

and panto returned with caution:

- THE WIZARD OF OZ

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Liam Mandy

Co-starring

Emily Prince, Vanessa McAuley, Anna Ryan, Amy Power, 

Annie Larkin, Summer Alondra and John Giller

For our eleventh year we were back in full force, continuing to tour our best sellers, whilst bringing back a play from 2017 that we felt deserved more audiences :

- THE EMPTY STAGE

- MURDER AT...

- THE LAST CRUMB.

With our tenth pantomime venturing "under the sea":

- THE LITTLE MERMAID

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Liam Mandy, Emily Prince

Co-starring

Vanessa McAuley, Annie Larkin, Liz Bishopp, Estelle Long, Hannah Turpie,

Kyla Harwood, Carrie Ingram-Gettins, Charlotte Roche

This year had bookings for two of our classic productions, plus the debut of our first all-female play!

- LOVE GAMES

- THE LAST CRUMB.

- RUNNING FROM PARADISE

and an exciting new direction for our panto tours:

- BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Liam Mandy, Emily Prince

Co-starring

Annie Larkin, Liz Bishopp, Estelle Long, Carrie Ingram-Gettins, Steve Jackson, Liam Baker, Georgia Smith, Chris Preece, Jasmine Catherine, Mollie Walton, Natasha Bird, Harry Bird

We brought back three of our classic productions, 

- NO LOOSE ENDS

- THE EMPTY STAGE

- THE LAST CRUMB.

Following on from the succes of the previous tour, we ended up with a SOLD OUT tour..

- CINDERELLA

Starring

Tobias Nicholls, Emily Bush

Co-starring

Carrie Ingram-Gettins, Steve Jackson, Liam Baker, Chris Preece, Amy Power

Bookings have already started coming in for 4 classic Purple Dreams Productions with a date earmarked for a brand new play...

- KISSING ANGELS 

- NO LOOSE ENDS

- MURDER AT...

- RUNNING FROM PARADISE

and rumbles of what our next pantomime for schools may be...

- TBC