Previous productions

11th to 13th April, at Hampton Hill Theatre, and
2nd and 3rd July 2025, at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames

Programme available for download here

For those unfamiliar with this wonderful musical – the first ever written by the famous team of Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice – it tells the Old Testament story of Jacob and his twelve sons in glorious cartoonish-comedic manner featuring all kinds of musical styles including country and western, nineteen twenties music hall, rock and roll, lyrical ballad, West Indian calypso, French 'appassionato', and much more. Fresh from our sellout success in Hampton Hill, we were pleased to be able to present this new production at the Rose Theatre!

4th and 5th July 2024, at the Rose Theatre in Kingston upon Thames

Programme available for download here

The musical is a crazy comedy set in Roman occupied Britain in 84AD when the country was ruled by Gaius Julius Agricola who, as history relates, was a huge admirer of Britannia, and was much loved by the people.

As is popularly acknowledged, the Romans were famously brilliant at building roads and the show is centred around the ceremonial opening of the fine new chariotway, the C VI, which Agricola has just (very nearly) completed, linking Rome with Carlisle.

The story, featuring lots of lovely songs but with a plot far too silly to outline here, concerns complications which arise when the Minister of Transport, Conkus Maximus by name, arrives from Rome to snip the ribbon and open the road.

The "hilarius" list of characters who are mixed up in the fun includes a troupe of Lancastrian clog-dancers, two evil Roman tribunes called Parsimonius and Acrimonius, a massive bulldozer (the "Taurus-Soporens"), the wonderfully varied and characterful inmates of a local pub called The Roman's Return which is run by Jack and Annie Walker and their beautiful daughter Gracie - and many kilos of slippery Lancastrian tripe.

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Commissioned from David Nield and Jeremy James Taylor by Granada Television, the musical won high praise from the critics when broadcast and a coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival.