THE CAST

NOTABLE CAST MEMBERS
Dean Brindley - Creative Director at Mac & Dean/ Doctor of Philosophy. - writes poetry in the old Potteries dialect and will be speaking in the dialect for the play.

Mervyn Edwards - local history walks and talks - has written 24 books - will be speaking in the old Potteries dialect

Debi Alvey - classical singer and actor. A member of the Cantiamo 4-piece group

Hazel Jones - International podcaster of Abitofa Christie fame

THE ROUGH CLOSE MURDER

PODCAST CAST IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE 1886/MODERN

CHARACTER ACTOR

THOMAS DANIEL (dialect) Dean Brindley 1886

JOHN DANIEL Paul Nugent 1886

SUSAN DANIEL Kat Inglis 1886

WILLIAM DANIEL (dialect) Mervyn Edwards 1886/MODERN

DAVE Paul Nugent MODERN

SUE Kat Inglis MODERN

ALICE (8) Serraya Bergqvist MODERN

EMILY (5) Ava Simpkin MODERN

SOIREE: MR AND MRS LATHAM, JOHN DUVAL, GEORGE GOULD, SUSAN, JOHN AND JUKES

Henry Latham, George Gould and John Daniel are non-speaking but join in singing

MRS LATHAM Meredith Small 1886

(Cantiamo singing from Carmen)
MR LATHAM Jonathan William Turnock 1886

JOHN DUVAL (postman). Dean Brindley 1886

JOHN BENNETT Jonathan William Turnock 1886

STEVE Dave Warrilow MODERN

JUKES (8) Serraya Bergqvist 1886

NEIGHBOURS Meredith Small (Mrs Latham)
Dave Warrilow (Henry Latham)
Dean Brindley (John Duval)
Jonathan William Turnock (George Gould ) 1886

PC LLOYD Jonathan William Turnock 1886

DOCTOR Dean Brindley 1886

MR GOULD Dave Warilow 1886

GHOSTLY SONGS MODERN (page 50)
Funiculi, Funicular Dean Brindley (+ all at the soiree) 1886
Danny Boy Virginia Johnson MODERN

CORONER Dave Warrilow 1886

COURT ANNOUNCER Jonathan William Turnock 1886

FOREMAN Jonathan William Turnock 1886

MAGISTRATE Mervyn Edwards 1886

JUDGE Dean Brindley 1886

DAVE (AS WILLIAM) Mervyn Edwards MODERN

JEAN Meredith Small MODERN

JULIE ANGEL Sherrin Bergqvist MODERN

JAMES. Dave Warrilow MODERN
ROBERT Jonathan William Turnock MODERN

EVERYONE Sherrin Bergqvist, Kat Inglis, Serraya Bergqvist

Ava Simpkin, Jonathan William Turnock,

Dave Warrilow MODERN (page 91)

Narrator and podcaster: Hazel Jones

Many thanks also to Linda Gill for her assistance as narrator at the read-through on 23 July

A few photos of the cast - please send me photos to add - to maggiemoxom@aol.com

Mervyn Edwards

Mervyn is our local historian, doing regular talks and walks. He's also the author or 24 books, including the lost pubs of Stoke-in-Trent. So, he should be good playing the drunken William Daniel. 😂

Julie Angel

Unfortunately Julie Angel has not been able to come to Staffordshire to read the part, written especially for her. We wish her well.

It was Julie who gave me the incantations she uses in her exorcisms and the herbs used for psychic cleansing and has been a great supporter of my work.

She is otherwise known as a street psychic and real life psychic detective. She is of USA and Canada's Close Up television and radio, SKY tv, ITV, BBC1, Channel 4, Kerrang, BBC Radio Hereford & Worcester, and national press fame. She has innate clairvoyant and psychic abilities! She also supports numerous charities and has set up spiritual retreats and psychic development workshops in areas of natural beauty across the world.

Sherrin Bergqvist - stepped in at the last moment to read the part of Julie Angel, the psychic medium. Sherrin is the mother of Serraya, who is also in the cast

Sherrin is an ex teacher and will bring her commanding, authoritative voice into the fore, to bring the exorcism to it's exciting climax.