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CAST

Maev Alexander (Meg)

Maev Alexander trained at the Royal Scottish Academy and after a year at The Citizens’ Theatre in Glasgow joined The Royal Shakespeare Company to play Perdita in The Winter’s Tale, Susan in Arden of Faversham and to understudy Dame Judi Dench. Television credits include Jasmine Bligh in Jack Rosenthal’s The Fools on the Hill, Polly Cockpurse in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop and Mrs. Fred in the Sir Michael Horden Christmas Carol. She played Christine Russell in two series of Sutherland’s Law, Jen-Jen Quilly in three series of Holding the Fort and WPC Sandra Williams in many episodes of The Gentle Touch and sidestepped her acting career to present the news desk on That’s Life. Maev has also been seen guesting in episodes of many TV series including EastEnders and most recently played a psychopath in Doctors. Her feature films include Charles Rennie McIntosh, Comfort and Joy and Death Defying Acts with Catherine Zeta Jones and Guy Pearce. Her radio work includes Mrs. Elton in Emma, Janet Ilchester in The Adventures of Harry Richmond, Arabella Logan in Confessions of a Justified Sinner and most recently Mother in two series of The Emma Stories. In regional theatre the length and breadth of Britain she has played everything from Cleopatra to a French poodle. Recent work includes Miss Brodie in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The Marquise de Merteuil in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Mother in Eurydice, Mrs. Alving in Ghosts and Maud Gonne in a new play about WB Yeats. She has toured extensively for Bill Kenwright, in the Sir Peter Hall production of An Ideal Husband, The Chalk Garden and The Constant Wife and transferred to The West End in the Martin Shaw Man for all Seasons. Maev also holds the record as the longest serving Mollie in the world’s longest-running production, The Mouse Trap.

Cornelius Garrett (Andrew)

Cornelius has worked in theatres up and down the country. Productions include Macbeth, Tamburlaine, Twelfth Night, The Government Inspector, Arden of Faversham at Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre; Romeo and Juliet at Newcastle; Afore Night Come with the RSC; Merchant of Venice and Marino Faliero at The Young Vic, London; Time and the Conways, The Winter’s Tale, Duchess of Malfi, Loves Labours’ Lost, Aladdin, The Winslow Boy, Room with a View and many others at the Bristol Old Vic; several seasons at The Alma Tavern Theatre in Bristol; and Panto and Summer Rep at Sheringham in Norfolk. In 2010 he worked with Lars Harald Gathe in a production of Visits by Jon Fosse. Television includes three years of the fashion designer serial Gems, Casualty, Emmerdale, The Bill and Heartlands, as well as several of the BBC TV Shakespeare plays. Films include Artemis’ 81, James Bond – For Your Eyes Only and The White Lady. He has recorded dozens of Audio Books for the BBC and Radio dramas, with classic serials such as Lorna Doone and Joseph Andrews.

Alex Gilbert (Titania)

Alex trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. Theatre credits include: Winnie, Daisy Pulls It Off (Upstairs at the Gatehouse); Player Queen/Fortenbras, Hamlet (Northern Broadsides); Laura Sanderson, I’ll Be Back Before Midnight (The Mill at Sonning); Lady Macbeth, Macbeth (Young Shakespeare Company); Dijana, It Felt Empty When The Heart Went At First But It’s All Right Now (Cockpit Theatre); Nurse, Romeo and Juliet (Tucked In Productions/Bristol Old Vic); Gwendolyn, The Importance of Being Earnest (Redgrave Theatre); Michelle, DEBRIS and Miss Fitzpatrick, Remarkable Trees (Juncture Productions); Mary, The Long Road (Bath Literature Festival); Hortensio, Who’s Shrew (Lucky Stuff Productions); Creon, Medea (Lost Theatre); Maid, What Every Woman Knows (Finborough Theatre). TV credits include: Rebecca, Acting Up (Talkback Thames).

Elaine Montgomerie (Lady Eliza)

Dame Elaine Montgomerie is a veteran actress who has played leading roles in major companies throughout Britain and Australia. In recent years, as Madame Pompadour in her one-woman show I Shall Be Remembered, she has toured Australia and the U.K., including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012. Elaine has toured the major cities of Australia as leading lady for the J.C. Williamson Shakespeare company playing roles which included Portia, Queen Hermione, Helena and Viola. She speaks fluent Italian and translated Italian classic, La Locandiera by Goldoni (1757) and has played the lead role with several companies. Some favourite roles include; Amanda in Private Lives, Maria in When we are Married, Mrs Bennett in Pride and Prejudice.