Spiteful Puppet
British company
Spiteful Puppet is a British company that produces books, stage plays and audio plays (released both straight to compact disc and also for download). Among their many releases includes a long running audio series based on Robin of Sherwood alongside many books and audio films.
History
Formed in 2013, Spiteful Puppet began recording audio plays to 'continue' the popular television series Robin of Sherwood recruiting many of the show's original stars including Michael Praed, Nickolas Grace and Jason Connery. One of the standalone episodes won the BBC Audio Drama Award for the best non-broadcast audio drama and several achievements at the New York Radio Festival Awards.
Drawing on from this success, the company began novelising the episodes they had created into books and in 2018, they began to produce theatre plays, including a sequel to the popular Pet Shop Boys musical Closer to Heaven called Musik.
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of the Up Pompeii pilot, Spiteful Puppet released an audio adaptation based on the stage play by Miles Tredinnick. The script was adapted by Barnaby Eaton-Jones, Daniel McGachey and Iain McLaughlin, with Eaton-Jones serving as producer and director of the live recording sessions at London's Shaw Theatre on 12 October 2019. The two staged performances starred Madeline Smith as Ammonia, Frazer Hines as Ludicrus, Rosa Coduri as Erotica, Jack Lane as Nausius, Jilly Breeze as Senna, Ben Perkins as Corneus and Barnaby Eaton-Jones as Kretinus, with guest stars Cleo Rocos as Suspenda, Camille Coduri as Voluptua, and Tim Brooke-Taylor as Captain Trecherus. The lead role of Lurcio was played in the manner of Frankie Howerd by David Benson, who had previously played Howerd on stage and radio. A double CD release was announced for release on 29 November 2019.
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