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HOLLY CASSIDY

JACINDA, GUS, GERALD & RITA

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GENTLE HARRY'S fARM CAST & CHARACTERS

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Magpie
Holly Cassidy

Holly trained as an actor musician at Rose Bruford College and later went on to study physical theatre at Jacques Lecoq in Paris for 2 years. She makes her own work and toured her debut show, The Campers with her company Fever Birds in 2022. This is Holly's third season for The Rudes - in 2023 she joined the team for Miss Popplewell's Garden. Acting credits include: Love Bites (BOB Theatre) Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin, Dr. Livingstone, I presume, Frankenstein! (Miracle Theatre Princess Pavilion, Falmouth & South West tours) The Campers (Fever Birds) Movement director for The Secrets of the Stour (Wimborne Community Theatre) Une Journée Sur La Côte D’Azure, Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Dreampark Theatre (UK and European tour) Merlin’s Apprentice (Kickline Theatre Taunton Brewhouse) The Strong Man (Bashstreet Theatre Uk & European tour) Grime (Ramshacklicious UK tour) Having watched Rude’s shows before and loved their work, Holly is delighted to have joined the company for this summer tour.

 

RUDES SHOWS

MISS POPPLEWELL'S GARDEN

THE DRESSING BOOK

GENTLE HARRY'S FARM

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Holly Cassidy in Miss Popplewell's Garden by The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company.
Holly Cassidy in Miss Popplewell's Garden by The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company

 

ARTIE GODDEN

ACORN, ALBERT, ELSIE, ARTHUR, DETECTIVE INSPECTOR PRONE & BERT

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Artie Godden

Artie Godden is an internationally-trained actor, musician and multi-disciplinary theatre artist who has performed at numerous venues spanning from Bristol Old Vic to the Alamazen Teatre in Barcelona. 

​​Working predominantly as a theatre actor, he specialises in clown and physical comedy and is a guest lecturer in clown at the London College of Music. He has toured extensively with Olivier award-winning director Sally Cookson’s We’re Going on A Bear Hunt, creates and devises clown shows for cabarets and theatre, writes and performs music, and teaches workshops across the UK.

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After completing a BA in Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of Bristol, he went on to study with clown masters from across the globe at the Nouveau Clown Institute, in Barcelona and renowned École Philippe Gaulier, in Paris.

He has worked with theatre and circus companies including: 

Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Bristol Old Vic, Bristol Physical Theatre Project, Full Tilt-Aerial, Bassline Circus, Onsen Presents, Bath Spa University, Bristol University, Bristol Playwrights Collective, Godden and Barnes, Sasswagen Collective and The Three Inch Fools.

You can find him singing with his guitar by the London Eye, or at pubs around the capital. He is a founding member of Sasswagen Collective, who rewrite the rules on whose voice gets heard in classic texts.

 

RUDES SHOWS

GENTLE HARRY'S FARM

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EVIE JAMES

MAYBELLINE ERSTWHILE

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Evie James

Evie is delighted to be back again performing with The Rudes! She graduated from Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Her theatre credits include Tina in Gods and Dogs and Mrs Hawrtrey-Churlish in Miss Popplewell's Garden (The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company), Ally in Reclaiming Harry (Edinburgh/Prague/Colchester Fringe 2022), Fairy Fee/Fancy Nancy/Contessa of Petiti in Dick Whittington (The Theatre, Chipping Norton), Young Woman in Contagion Cabaret (The Theatre Chipping Norton), Peppa Pig in Peppa Pig’s Big Splash/Peppa Pig’s Surprise (UK & Ireland/Australian Tours), Ellie in Santa’s Dizzy Day (Harlow Playhouse)and Sam in Teletubbies Live (Winter Wonderland).

 

Commercial credits include Freya in Favro, Woman Working From Home for Deep Heat and Wife for Armstead Paints.

She has also worked extensively in Immersive Theatre (The Crystal Maze Live, Polar Express) and enjoys writing stupid comedy songs on her ukulele. 

Evie James in Miss Popplewell's Garden by The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company

 

RUDES SHOWS

MISS POPPLEWELL'S GARDEN

GODS & DOGS

THE DRESSING BOOK

GENTLE HARRY'S FARM

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Evie James in The Dressing Book by The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company

 

MATTHEW NICHOLSON

TED, BILLY, TROUBLE, HARRIS, PC PLAUSABLE & RODNEY

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Matthew Nicholson

Tamsin is an actor, musician and puppeteer who trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She is over the moon to be making her Rudes debut this summer! 

 

Recent credits include Three Little Pigs (Lost the Plot Theatricals); There's A Tiger In The Garden (Flock Theatre Makers); A Tale Of Fellowship (The Actor's Church); #FIT (Big Licks Theatre Company/The Cockpit); The Merry Wives (Film on Film Entertainment); Legends Of Arahma (The Actors Church); Red Riding Hood (Colour House Theatre), Pinocchio Gets Wood(Guildford Fringe Company), Much Ado About Nothing (The Cockpit), Othello (Brunel Museum/The Cockpit), Jack and the Beanstalk (Campus West), The Soldier’s Tale (Clapham Omnibus Theatre).

 

Tamsin can also be seen all around East Sussex on the back of the buses, recruiting keen new bus drivers to join Metrobus! Sadly, she wasn't allowed to keep the bus for the tour- would've made for a far easier get out...

 

RUDES SHOWS

GENTLE HARRY'S FARM

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ROWAN TALBOT

HARRY, ERNEST & ROY

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Rowan Talbot

Rowan has been involved, as either an actor or composer in all but three of The Rudes productions since 1999 and has been working professionally for 30 years. His other selected theatre includes: Green Man Red Woman (National Theatre Wales), The Children’s Court (National Theatre Wales & Unicorn). Robin Hood, Aladdin and Sleeping Beauty (Theatre Clwyd). Noises Off, The Hot Mikado, Twelfth Night, Relatively Speaking and Dick Barton Special Agent (Queens Theatre). My Beautiful Launderette (RSC, Bloomsbury, SNAP). Jack and The Beanstalk (Ipswich), The Gruffalo’s Child (Tall Stories), Scooby Doo (Warner Bros), Stand By Me (Riverside), The Cow Play (Square Moon). Mistress Maud’s Chambers of Fantastical Truth (for the artist Caroline Sabin). Rapunzel, Beauty and The Beast, Ali Baba, Jack & The Giant and Puss In Boots (Chipping Norton). You’ve Got Dragons (Taking Flight) and, most recently, Finding Home (Mercury Theatre Wales) and the solo show In Pursuit Of Maud (Caroline Sabin). TV and Film credits include The Hate Commission (Channel 4), Forest People (BBC), Blue Peter (BBC).

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Rowan is also a composer and MD and has written scores for over 50 theatre productions and films. Selected credits include National Theatre Wales, Ransack Dance, The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company (Resident MD and composer), Taking Flight Theatre Company, Fabler Theatre Company Chipping Norton Theatre, Mercury Theatre Wales, Cardiff University, Newport Live, Artis Community, Cardiff Council, Creative Connection and the NSPCC.

 

RUDES SHOWS

MISS POPPLEWELL'S GARDEN

GODS & DOGS

LITTLE LILLY HARLEY

IKARUS INC (2010 & 2019)

OBERONS CURE

WHO SAW MARJORY DAW?

NOAH BABELS ARK

FIVE GET FAMOUS

THE GOLD RUSH

THE FAIRY QUEEN

THE ODYSSEY

THE WIFE OF BATH (2003 & 2004)

THE MUSICIANS OF BREMEN

THE COMEDY OF BABI BABBETT

TWELFTH NIGHT

TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA

THE COMEDY OF ERRORS

THE DRESSING BOOK

GENTLE HARRY'S FARM

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Rowan Talbot in The Fairy Queen by The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company
Rowan Talbot in Little Lilly Harley by The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company

 

ED THORPE

AGNES, JOSEPHINE, HAZEL & ROSE

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Ed Thorpe

Ed is an actor and musician who was born and raised in Nottinghamshire and trained at Rose Bruford College. He is delighted to return to The Rudes after appearing in Little Lily Harley & Gods and Dogs. His Theatre credits include: The Commitments (National Tour), Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Robin Hood: The Arrow of

Destiny, Swallows and Amazons (York Theatre Royal); Peter Pan, Far From the Madding

Crowd, Alice in Wonderland (The Watermill
Theatre); Peter Pan, Beauty and the Beast, Dick Whittington, Cinderella, Four Dames in Search of a Panto,
Aladdin; (Theatre Royal Winchester) Hood: The legend Continues, The Tiger’s Bones and other stories, The Giant Jam Sandwich (New Perspectives); Tom’s Midnight Garden, George’s Marvellous Medicine (Birmingham Stage Company). He has never been on the telly, except for a Swiss crisps advert. He is excited to rejoin the Rude Mechanical family and is looking forward to another glorious English summer on tour.

 

RUDES SHOWS

GODS & DOGS

LITTLE LILLY HARLEY

THE DRESSING BOOK

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Ed Thorpe in Gods & Dogs by The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company.
Ed Thorpe in Little Lilly Harley by The Rude Mechanical Theatre Company.
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