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John Godber's Comedy Masterpiece Happy Jack |
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Jack and Liz are the funny, bickering couple from Godber's earlier comedy masterpiece SEPTEMBER IN THE RAIN, toured by the company through 2007. From their courtship to retirement, they weave a path through their long life together in a play, which is neat, joyous and celebratory. Jack is a larger than life miner and Liz his nagging & clacking wife! Full of comedy and pathos; you will laugh one minute and cry the next!
Liz and Jack are played by Stephanie Preacher and Dominic Goodwin, both of whom have enviable CV's, from Stephanie's roles in Coronation Street and Emmerdale on TV as well as Humbe Boy in London's West End, to Dominic's many BBC Radio credits, tours of the WWI drama, Not About Heroes and September in the Rain and his two outings as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot.
"Richly comic love story" - The Guardian "Hilarious characters, beautifully portrayed" - Promoter
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About the show
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Dominic Goodwin's first role onstage was back in 1979 in the musical The Dracula Spectacular, when at the tender age of 13 he played the deformed man-servant Genghis (and only because his best friend was in it!). His acting credits have included Northern tours of Two by Jim Cartwright; The Long Mirror by J B Priestley; Siegfried Sassoon in the World War One play Not About Heroes by Stephen MacDonald; and Jack in Godber's September in the Rain. Other roles have included Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream at The Beck Theatre; Oscar in The Odd Couple; Freddie in Noises Off; as well as two appearances as Hercule Poirot in Black Coffee and Peril At End House.
Dominic's directing credits include: Ayckbourn's How The Other Half Loves and Sisterly Feelings, Twelfth Night, Canterbury Tales, and the musicals; Billy and Carrots. He directed the Ratatat Theatre's first Edinburgh Fringe show last year, Mike Kenny's Whose Shoes?
Dominic was Co-Producer of the Ian McMillan musical about the life and work of Jake Thackray, Sister Josephine Kicks the Habit, and is also closely involved with the new Thackray musical, The Thackray Arms, written by Alan Plater. |
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Stephanie Preacher trained at Central School of Speech & Drama, London and has worked in almost all forms of theatre including street, community & forum theatre, festival, touring and Theatre-in-Education. She worked through the last days of fortnightly repertory theatre, as well as in the West End (playing Flora in Humble Boy), television, film and radio. She has worked as actress, model, director, stage manager, voice over, a tree, and a (hopeless) understudy. Recently, she has played Mildred Cranshaw in Coronation Street, and solicitor Miss Donaldson in Emmerdale.
Her directorial credits include: Gaslight, Duet For One, Separate Tables and The Donohue Sisters. In devising and forum theatre this also includes: The Spanish Conquest of Peru, Zampano's Circus, Ready Steady STOP! and The Mirrors of Chartres Street, based on the writings of Nobel prize winner William Faulkner.
Her hobbies are walking the dog, learning Portuguese and working her magicienne skills. |
