2025 cast

Following the auditions for principal parts in our February 2025 production of The Jury’s Out, the cast below was finalised.

Sally	Owner of the “Sally Lunn” pop-up food truck Childhood sweetheart of Richard Plaintiff (Act 2)	Jennifer Murray-Smith
Angela	Friend of Sally Student studying law Counsel for the Plaintiff (Act 2)	Sinead Beveridge
Richard Cor	Captain of MV Pinafore Childhood sweetheart of Sally Defendant (Act 2)	Theodore Rankine-Fourdraine
Sir Marmaduke (Act 1) Judge (Act 2)	The village mayor (Act 1) The judge (Act 2)	Robin Ożóg
Henry	First Officer of MV Pinafore Friend of Captain Richard Counsel for the Defendant (Act 2)	Kenneth Maciver
Dr Daly	Vicar (Act 1) Foreman of the jury (Act 2)	Michael Enright
Adam (Act 1) Usher (Act 2)	Village handyman (Act 1) Court usher (Act 2)	Martin Tarr
Cyril	Assistant handyman (Act 1) Trainee court usher (Act 2)	Andrew Murray

As well as this publicly-available list, we announced that Frances McCafferty, for many years our Honorary President, would be making a “guest appearance”. The nature of her role was carefully kept under wraps until the first night, when the audience found out that Frances was playing Katisha – “the lady from our travels”, as Richard and Henry found out when the wedding celebrations of Richard and Sally were interrupted by her unexpected appearance. Needless to say, this secret was explained in neither synopsis nor programme!

Frances’ role was in fact more than the cameo that “guest appearance” suggests … after Katisha arrives on stage at the end of Act 1, she doesn’t leave it, being discovered when the curtain rises on Act 2 occupying the Judge’s seat, and making off with the Judge at the end of the show: “Oh joy!” “Oh rapture!” “Oh rapture!” “Oh joy!”. And it was indeed a joy for our amateur cast to work with a consummate professional of Frances’ calibre.