- Playwright – Kenneth Grahame
- Location – Harrogate Theatre Main Stage
- Director – Rachel Conyers & Robin Green
Cast
- Mole – Darren Smith
- Rat – Stuart Newsome
- Toad – Michael Garside
- Badger – John Glyn Jones
- Albert – Stuart Kellett
- Rabbit Robert – Richard Naylor
- Rabbit Ronald – Ian Hagues
- Rabbit Rose – Charlotte Mason
- Young Rabbits – Lily McNeill & Emma Belwood
- Squirrel Shirley – Jenny Humphreys
- Squirrel Sam – Mo Kennedy
- Squirrel Raymond – Dylan Verity
- Young Squirrels – Hayley Cockcroft & Katherine Murray
- Hedgehog Henrietta – Lesley Wheal
- Hedgehog Harry/Harold – Anna Thrussel
- Young Hedgehogs – Dan Carey & Alicia Morgan
- Field Mice – Reuben Aston, Jemima Brett, Jasmine Madeley, Sebastian Smallwood & Daisy Wallace
- The Wild Wood Chief Weasel – Judi Kenley
- Weasel Norman – Kate Antram
- Weasel Winifred – Frances Sellars
- Ferret/Stoat Gerald – Alex Johnson Sergeant
- Fred Ferret – Joash Parker
- Stoat Iris – Portia Crewe
- Stoat Stuart – Josh Belward
- Stoat Cyril – Emily Meikel
- The Wide World Magistrate – Sue Bravender
- Clerk of the Court – Gavin Smith
- Policeman Ken Swires – John Wilford
- Gaoler’s Daughter – Lucy Evans
- Washerwoman – Pauline Chick
- Train Driver – Chris Rawson
- Ticket Clerk – Adrian Smith
- Bargewoman – Alissa Reilly
Down by the riverside, something stirs. Mole’s fed up with Spring cleaning and comes up for a breath of fresh air…
The next thing you know, he’s got a new friend, and it’s a friend with a boat. This is Ratty who says very wise things like: “There is nothing…….absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats”. And in they get and off they row and their Great Adventure begins.
They meet the incorrigible, boastful, loud and pompous Toad with his passing whims. First it’s his caravan, then it’s a motor car (poop ! poop!), then it’s his barge, not to mention all the scrapes he gets himself into.
Then there’s dear old Badger trying to bring some sanity to proceedings. Mix in a few rather sinister Wild Wooders and a handful of rather strange human beings and you have the classic story re-told with inimitable humour by Yorkshire’s own Alan Bennett.
Lots of singing, lots of dancing and lots of fun. A colourful spectacular for the child in each of us. The Wind in the Willows is one you’d be sorry to miss. However old you are.