Grange Park Opera

HMP Bronzefield
Woodthorpe Rd
Ashford
TW15 3JZ
The nearest station is Ashford (Surrey)

This biennial large-scale project is, for the prisoners, an intensive, transformative experience of rehearsing for and performing in a West-End standard production, in front of a paying public audience.

After four weeks of intensive rehearsals (six hours a day, 3 February – 3 March), prisoners perform alongside professionals with a live orchestra for a night you will not forget.

The musical Made in Dagenham had its West End premiere in 2014. It is the story of the women making seat covers in the Ford plant at Dagenham who staged a strike for equal pay.

There are performances for other prisoners, for prison staff and for the public.

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Cast & Creatives

RITA O’GRADY, machinist strike leader ∙ JODIE JACOBS
EDDIE O’GRADY, her husband ∙ JACK BUTTERWORTH
HAROLD WILSON, the Prime Minister ∙ CHRISTOPHER HOWELL
BARBARA CASTLE, Secretary of State ∙ JACQUELINE HUGHES
JEREMY HOPKINS, Factory Manager ∙ CHRISTOPHER HOWELL
CORTINA MAN ∙ CHRIS JENKINS
MONTY TAYLOR, Union Leader ∙ CHRIS JENKINS
ROBERT TOOLEY, Ford US Executive ∙ STEVEN SERLIN
BARRY, factory worker ∙ DALE WHITE

DIRECTOR / CHOREOGRAPHER ∙ LIZZI GEE
MUSIC DIRECTOR ∙ BETHANY REEVES
LIGHTING DESIGNER ∙ WARREN LETTON
COSTUME DESIGNER ∙ BEK PALMER