In the Bleak Midwinter

Plot

Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.

Cast

Michael Maloney

Joe

Richard Briers

Henry

Joan Collins

Margaretta

Nicholas Farrell

Tom Newman

Julia Sawalha

Nina

Celia Imrie

Fadge

John Sessions

Terry Du Bois

Jennifer Saunders

Nancy

Gerard Horan

Carnforth

Mark Hadfield

Vernon Spatch

Hetta Charnley

Molly

Adrian Scarborough

Young actor

Brian Pettifer

Ventriloquist

Patrick Doyle

Scotsman

Shaun Prendergast

Mule Train Man