Made in Dagenham
“Nothing changes if it isn’t challenged”
How much injustice can women endure before they rebel? Rita O’Grady is overworked and underpaid - she has finally had enough. It is 1968 and along with her female colleagues at Ford Dagenham, Mother-of-two Rita begins a local battle for equal pay that unwittingly garners national attention. This prescient tale attests to the continuing struggle for equal rights that wages on today.
Made in Dagenham is an uplifting musical, full of energy, that brings recognition to everyday women being wives and mothers whilst standing up for their rights.
Performed at the Oxford Playhouse
13th-16th February 2019
Production Team
Producer: Amy Thompson
Director: Miranda Mackay
Musical Director: Josh Cottell
Choreographer: Hannah Klim
Assistant Producer: Matilde Soares da Silva
Assistant Directors: Emma Hawkins, Caleb Barron
Tap Choreographer: Amy Charles
Assistant Choreographer: Max Penrose
Lighting Designer: Seb Dows-Miller
Associate Lighting Designer: Louise Drognat-Landré
Assistant Lighting Designers: Jake Adams, Will Hayman, Sophie Clifford-King, Nick Heymann, Cerian Richmond Jones
Sound Designer: Bill Wu
Assistant Sound Designer: Morgane Griffiths
Sound Assistants: Sungmin Cho, Kennagh Marsh, Neil Fisher
Costume Designer: Beth McCullagh
Wardrobe: Cat Robinson, Cecily Lasnet, Maya Colborn
Set Designer: Christopher Neal
Assistant Set Designer: Emily Stevenhagen
Production Manager: Rhiannon Ogden-Jones
CSM: Greta Economides
Technical Stage Manager: James Fellows
Props Supervisor: Kitty Foster
ASMs: Bethan Chalmers, Juliet Dowley, Alice Lavelle
Marketing Manager: Laura Wilsmore
Deputy Marketing Manager: Ben Gregson
Outreach and Access Officer: Olivia Webster
Press Officer: Rheanna Bayley
Events Organiser: Kitty Low
Social Media Marketing: Emi Staniazek
Marketing Assistant: Sam Trevelyan
Cast
Rita O'Grady: Maddy Page
U/S Rita O'Grady: Emily Ashbrook
Beryl: Ruby Nicholson
Sandra: Grace Albery
Clare: Ellie Thomas
Cass: Lucy Jones
Connie Riley: Isabella Gilpin
Eddie O'Grady: Eoghan McNelis
Lisa Hopkins: Jessica Bradley
Mr. Hopkins: Nathan di Georgi
Monty: Luke Buckley Harris
Barbara Castle: Ella Tournes
Harold Wilson: David Garrick
Mr. Tooley: Gavin Fleming
Graham O’Grady: Daisy Cook / Ethan Harris
Sharon O’Grady: Alice Johns / Lyla Ellis
Male Ensemble: Jake Griffiths (Cortina Man), Jake Harrison Woods, Max Penrose, Josh Willetts, Joe Winter, Emilio Campa
Female Ensemble: Alicia Fisher, Rachel Kevern, Sophie Stiewe, Emi Staniaszek, Lucy Gibbs, Emily Ashbrook
Photography by Ben Darwent and Laura Wilsmore.
Made in Dagenham: The Musical. Book by Richard Bean, Music by David Arnold, Lyrics by Richard Thomas. Based on the Woolley/Karlsen/Number 9 Motion Picture. This amateur production was presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International (Europe)
Praise for Made in Dagenham
"An explosion of colourful enthusiasm with an encouraging message, an upbeat cast, and musical numbers you’ll be humming all the way home." – Oxford Opening Night
"Everything in this production is well thought-out." – The Oxford Student
"The modification of “student” attached to it is not needed. Such a label often implies that a production is of a lesser level, that it is a piece that requires an audience to be forgiving, the actors to be sub-par. Made in Dagenham needs no such modifier." – The Oxford Student