Plot Summary
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.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- Poppy
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- en
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Cast
Ken Wynne
Emperor of China
Nichola McAuliffe
Queen Victoria
David Firth
Jack Idle
Christopher Hurst
Randy
Andrew Thomas James
Randy
Janet Shaw
Sally Forth
Andrea Chance
Cherry
Samantha Hughes
Cherry
Geoffrey Hutchings
Lady 'Dodo'
Antonia Ellis
Dick Whittington
Leo Andrew
Clerk
Jimmy Cassidy
Clerk
Stewart Mackintosh
Clerk
Tano Rea
Clerk
Alfred Marks
Obadiah Upward
John Watts
Lin Tse-Tsii
David Bacon
Teng Tin Chen
Sarah Lam
Yo-Yo
Philip Tsaras
Tiger
Antony Simons
Elephant
Production Companies
IFPA
ALMI Television Productions