It’s 1928, and the director Mack Sennett, king of the silent comic film, has come back to his old studio. But it’s all changed; now they’re shooting a talkie. And talkies, according to Sennett, are nothing but “some joker with a Victrola back of the screen” – just tricks and not worth “one eighth of a quarter of an inch of my Mabel”. Mabel Normand, silent film actress, is the woman Sennett loved – indeed, still loves.

Now she’s gone, and he knows she’s in trouble. But it’s not the kind of trouble one of his big Sennett finishes can solve. Besides, times are different now and they don’t make happy endings any more. “But what do they know about making movies?” he asks. “Not a goddam thing!”

With Show-stopping numbers such as ‘Look What Happened to Mabel’ ‘I Won’t Send Roses’ and ‘Tap Your Troubles Away’, Mack and Mabel promises to be a must-see!

Curtains raise on the 8th of June 2010 at the Bradford Playhouse, tickets available from £10.

Mack and Mable
The Bradford Players - Cast List

Mack Sennett ------ Nigel Dixon
Mabel Normand ------ Amy Roche
Lottie ------ Adele Wicks
Frank ------ Chris Sheard
Ella ------ Wendy Robinson
William Desmond Taylor ------ Craig Deacon
Kessle ------ Roger Butterfield
Bauman ------ Scot Atkinson
Fatty Arbuckle ------ Carl Murray

 

 

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