CAST

Mark Hadfield

Henry Wakefield
Richard Briers

Vernon Spatch
Mark Hadfield

Tom Newman
Nicholas Farrell

Carnforth Greville
Gerard Horan

Terry Du Bois
John Sessions

Fadge
Celia Imrie

Molly
Hetta Charnley

Nina
Julia Sawalha

Margaretta D'Arcy
Joan Collins

Nancy Crawford
Jennifer Saunders

Mortimer
Robert Hines

Tim
James D. White

Mrs. Branch
Ann Davies

Nina's Father
Edward Dewesbury

"Vernon has been an actor all his life but he has recently realized that no-one actually takes him seriously so his quest is to work in the real theatre. He's very in love with the business but wants to be needed by his colleagues which is why he devotes so much time to helping with the box office, the posters etc." says Mark Hadfield.

Hadfield studied drama at RADA where he first met Kenneth Branagh in 1979 and the two became good friends. It was here that Hadfield played his first Polonius to Branagh's first Hamlet.

Fifteen years later Hadfield is playing Polonius again but points out that he is still not old enough for the role. In the intervening years, he has also appeared in two other productions of "Hamlet" - at the Royal Shakespeare Company when he played Reynaldo and Osric and on BBC Radio when he played the First Gravedigger in Branagh's Renaissance Theatre Company production.

Hadfield has worked extensively in the theatre with a string of appearances for the RSC including Grumio in "The Taming of the Shrew," Aguecheek in "Twelfth Night" and a number of roles for director Adrian Noble in "Henry VI," "Edward IV" and "Richard III."

His film credits include Stephen Poliakoff's "Century" and Chris Mogens' "Just Like a Woman." He also featured in a leading role in Kenneth Branagh's "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."