---
title: Epsom Downs
playwright: Howard Brenton
period: Autumn
season: In House
season_sort: 30
date_start: 1989-11-29
date_end: 1989-12-02
---

---
title: Epsom Downs
playwright: Howard Brenton
period: Autumn
season: In House
season_sort: 30
date_start: 1989-11-29
date_end: 1989-12-02

cast:
  - name: Jonathan Keane
    role: Bobby / Jocks / Jubilee Chicken Trader
  - name: Lesley Jones
    role: Primrose / Emaily Wilding Davison / Dorothy Delaune
  - name: Ian Hawkins
    role: Sandy / The Aga Khan / Les / Horse Owner / Beer Tent Drunk
  - name: Rob Bradly
    role: Charles Pearce / Mack / Morry / Horse / The Course
  - name: Russ Hobson
    role: Supt Blue / Down and Out Man / Grandpa / Louis
  - name: Ed Donald
    role: Mr Tillotson / Hugh / Jockey / Policeman / Kermit Frog Trader
  - name: Kate Gordon
    role: Margaret / Bunny Girl
  - name: Helen Punt
    role: Sharon / Miss Motrom / Horse Owner / Woman at the Beer Tent
  - name: Shelagh Roberts
    role: Minty
  - name: Lindesay Irbine
    role: Lord Rack / Roger Coyle / Stable Lad / Bud
  - name: Nick Clark
    role: The Derby / The Horseowner
  - name: Tasmin Pickard
    role: Sweet Woman / Beer Tent Drunk

crew:
  - name: Donna Longman
    role: Lighting
  - name: Alan Salmon
    role: Sound
  - name: Mareike Von Spreckelsen
    role: Posters
  - name: Kim Stephenson
    role: Stage Manager
  - name: Daniel Monaghan
    role: Stage Manager
  - name: Claire Dykema
    role: Programme
  - name: Alex Graves
    role: Programme
  - name: Mark Curry
    role: Key Grip
  - name: Alex Graves
    role: Producer
  - name: Nick Clark
    role: Director

---

The action occurs in June 1977, Jubilee Year. The Epsom Derby Stakes is one of the most important races in the British Sporting Calendar. Thousands have come to gamble, to drink, or just for a day out. Here all are equal, all united by the race and the consuming desire to disk something or everything on the outcome of a 1½ mile flat race for 3 year old horses. But who's race is it really? Who are the great British public at this time of high patriotic fervour? And who will win the Derby?
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From details provided via email from Nick Earle
