
Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form, pantomime. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.

as Emperor of China

as Queen Victoria

as Jack Idle

as Randy

as Randy

as Sally Forth

as Cherry

as Cherry

as Lady 'Dodo'

as Dick Whittington

as Clerk

as Clerk

as Clerk

as Clerk

as Obadiah Upward

as Lin Tse-Tsii

as Teng Tin Chen

as Yo-Yo

as Tiger

as Elephant

as Elephant

as Chinese Dancer

as Lord Palmerston





