Cat and Her Whittington
A socialist/feminist retelling of Dick Whittington. And some of it rhymes! Digital show coming 7th
19/06/2022
✨THANK YOU ✨
Thank you all so much for the support you have shown us through this online viewing of Cat and Her Whittington: Digital! 🐈📕🐾
We hope that you have all enjoyed it; but most importantly, we want to hear your feedback for the development of the show. Feedback forms have been sent out and we can’t wait to hear your thoughts from what you liked to what you didn’t. All feedback really helps us as a team, to continue sharing the story of Cat and Her Whittington for future performances!
20% of the ticket sales will be given to to help and support the amazing work that they do and to continue their mission on helping combat homelessness in the UK.
Thank you all again! We hope to see you all again soon.
- The Cat and Her Whittington Team
18/06/2022
✨LAST CHANCE TO WATCH!✨
Cat and Her Whittington: Digital is available to view until Midnight tonight!!
If you haven’t got your tickets, head to the link in our bio! You can purchase tickets through the link until 10pm tonight.
Don’t miss out on watching, supporting and giving your feedback!
We can’t wait to hear your thoughts 🐈📕🐾🎟
- The CAHW Team
17/06/2022
Thank you all so much for your support so far, we really hope that you are enjoying the show! 🐈📕🐾
If you haven’t had a chance to watch Cat, Dick and Narrator and their journey, head to the link in our bio to get your pay what you can tickets and let us know your feedback! This viewing is on until the 18th June, so make sure you grab your tickets!
We are supporting on this Digital Showing where 20% of ticket sales will go directly to them!
✨Link in bio ✨
- The CAHW Team
11/06/2022
✨REMINDER✨
Watch Cat and Her Whittington: Digital! Available through the link in our bio. 🎟 We can’t wait to hear what you think! 🐈📕🐾
Recommended 16+, available until Saturday 18th June.
07/06/2022
Cat and Her Whittington: Digital has started and we couldn’t be happier! 🐈📕🐾
We hope that everyone who has seen it so far is enjoying it; and to the ones who haven’t yet, love it as much as we loved creating it. We can’t wait for all your feedback, so please let us know what you think in the forms provided!
If you haven’t yet got tickets, there is still time. Just head to our bio and get your “pay what you can” tickets and delve in to the world of Cat, Dick and Narrator. 🎟
Thank you all for your support so far!
- The Cat and Her Whittington Team 🐈🐾📕
06/06/2022
Cat and Her Whittington: Digital is finally here! 🐈📕🐾🎟
Remember, with your eventbrite link you can view anytime and as many times as you like from Midnight tonight until Midnight on Saturday 18th June!
We can’t wait for you all to see it, and to get your feedback. Feedback forms shall be sent out to be filled in, so you can let us know what you think!
If you still haven’t got your tickets, there is still time, grab them through the link in our bio. 🎟
Happy viewing!
- The Cat and Her Whittington Team
Watch our full trailer now, for Cat and Her Whittington: Digital! Premiering from 7th-18th June. Pay what you can tickets- link in bio 🐈📕🐾🎟👀
Becca is one of the actors in Cat and Her Whittington. Watch and catch up with her and what she has to say about The Big Issue, who we are supporting with this digital screening. 🐈📕🐾
Tickets available now, link in bio! 🎟
Lucy is the Director of Cat and Her Whittington. Watch Lucy talking about how we will use your feedback for the development and future of the show 🐈📕🐾
29/05/2022
29/05/2022
Tickets are available NOW* Head to the link in our bio to purchase them. We can’t wait for you to see it! 🐈📕🐾🎟
*recommended 16+, buy what you can tickets to view the show from 7th- 18th June 2022.
https://linktr.ee/cahw
28/05/2022
Cat and Her Whittington: Digital tickets go on sale TOMORROW!! 🐈📕🐾🎟
The show will premier on Tuesday 7th June and will run until Saturday 18th June. You can view the show any time (and as many times as you like) between 7th-18th June with the link you will recieve via eventbrite. Link will be in our bio from tomorrow!
20% of our ticket sales will be going directly to support who have supported citizens trying to get back on feet for over 30 years! As homelessness is a big theme throughout Cat and Her Whittington, supporting The Big Issue from this digital screening was a natural decision.
Toby is one of the actors in Cat and Her Whittington. Watch this catch up with him and what he has to say about The Big Issue, who we are supporting with this digital screening. 🐈📕🐾
Holly is the producer on Cat and Her Whittington. Watch Holly speaking about receiving your feedback on our digital viewing of the show, premiering on 7th June! 🐈📕🐾
Gabrielle is the writer and one of the actors in Cat and Her Whittington. Watch to see Gabrielle speaking about the upcoming digital viewing that’s premiering on 7th June! 🐈📕🐾
22/05/2022
Wondering why we are sharing our show digitally? Then look no further! One of our aims for the show is to raise money for charities. For this digital viewing, we have decided to give 20% of our ticket sales to The Big Issue. If we get the opportunity to tour the show at a later date, it would be fantastic to be able to support more charities that put in so much hard work to help people in need. 🐈📕🐾
Join us virtually from wherever you are for Cat and Her Whittington's Digital Show, 7th June 2022.
Buy tickets from the 29th May. Recommended 16+ 🐈📕🐾
This is not a pantomime; there’ll be no singing, dames or cheesy punchlines. This is the story of people who tried to thrive, but exist in a bleak world, where to live is to barely survive.
You’ve heard of Dick Whittington, of rags to riches fame, but his success was not his own to claim. This is Cat’s story - a tale for our century - asking if those who have nothing, can someday something be.
Premiering in 2021 at SparkFest, Gabrielle Finnegan brought the classic folk tale in to the 21st Century through fanciful realism with a political edge. Cat and Her Whittington explores the issues facing working class people today and tells the story of what it is like to be failed by the system we live in.
16/05/2022
…and we have been working away behind the scenes! Keep your eyes peeled 👀 for what’s next!
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07/07/2021
A little update for your life! ✨
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07/06/2021
Hello! Tonight is our opening night for Cat and Her Whittington, so we thought we'd tell you our story!
The idea for CAHW came from a schools tour of the 'Dick Whittington and his Cat' pantomime that Gabrielle Finnegan did with Billie-Jo Rainbird and Charlie Cocker. Billie is part of Andraste&Co Theatre Company and you can catch their show 'Sugar, Honey, Ice, Tea' at 7pm 8th June, as part of SparkFest. Charlie has also created a ditigal show for , 'Home Sweet', which you can watch here: https://youtu.be/G8tkd8vgRWk
Having done the tour, Gabrielle wanted to retell the Dick Whittington story from a Marxist, feminist perspective, as she didn't agree with some of the content in the pantomime, feeling its message of working hard to succeed didn't account for all the hold backs working class people face when looking for jobs and trying to build careers, and that it's hero built his off of someone else's skill... Sparkfest was calling out for creatives, so she though she'd give it a go, and decided to write the play in verse, having written another play in a similar style for Greedy Pig Theatre Company.
Having no idea how to produce the play, she asked her friends at Greedy Pig Theatre Company for advice, and they recommended Holly Jefferies, who Gabrielle had worked with before, and was desperate to work with again! She then asked her bestie Lucy Brown if she'd be up for directing, as she knew Lucy wanted to get back into her creative flow! Gabrielle asked her sister, Dominique Finnegan, to make the artwork for the socials, and our stunning poster.
Having pulled our creative team together, it was then time to cast. We held online auditions, and ended up casting the wonderful Toby Underwood and Rebecca Wake. We did Zoom rehearsals with actors, plus Zoom meetings with Holly and Lucy sorting out all the tec, the liason with and SparkFest, the forms, risk assessments, contracts, and funding. Gabrielle made script changes, with help from Holly and Lucy, and the actors took on the mammoth task of learning their many lines! We all did this whilst working other jobs, and of course, dealing with the pandemic, and the restrictions it imposed on our process, as well as our lives!
We finally got into physical rehearsals a week ago- making sure we regularly covid tested, and followed social distancing measures when we were not on stage. The week has flown by and yet feels like a lifetime! In addition to rehearsals, we've been fylering, visiting venues, doing our marketing, promoting the show wherever we can (big thanks to for a lot of that!), inviting guests, and generally working our socks off!
And now, it's almost go time! We cannot wait for you to see our play! We want want say another huge thank you to our donors for your support in getting us funded, thanks to everyone who has bought and ticket (and who will be buying one for tonight ;) ), to everyone who has promoted us on their socials, and a big thanks to Kerry Irvine for helping us with everything and believing in the project!
See you tonight at 9pm at Widcombe Social Club, for our play, Cat and Her Whittington!
L V Brown Photography
05/06/2021
We’ll be settling into Widcombe Social Club soon! And the history of the club was too fitting for our show not to mention... 🐈
29/05/2021
Look what we have here... Our little crew on the SparkFest website! Find out more about the CAHW team, and our fellow creatives via the link: https://www.sparkfest.co.uk/the-creatives/
27/05/2021
Our final Zoom rehearsals! We cannot wait to get into real life rehearsals next week, ready for our show on Monday 7th June! 😍
26/05/2021
We’re still busy behind the scenes making our show the best it can possibly be for our audience next month! Don’t forget tickets are available via the link: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bathspalive/cat-and-her-whittington/e-xkokpv
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15/05/2021
Thank you SO much to everyone who has so generously donated to our show! We have reached our minimum funding target of £250! 🥳❤🧡💛 We are so grateful for your support! Don't forget, tickets are now available for our performance from
12/05/2021
We know it's cheeky to ask for money,
But the underfunding of the arts isn't very funny...
So, we're reaching out for your support,
In order to help our little cohort! ❤
https://linktr.ee/catandherwhittington/
11/05/2021
We're in the brochure! Have a little look through to find out about us and all our wonderful co-creatives projects! There's lots of arts to catch up on ;)
https://issuu.com/bathspauni/docs/sparkfest_programme_2021_
SparkFest 2021 Brochure Bath Spa University Students perform in SparkFest 2021. 126 performances over 6 weeks.
07/05/2021
📣 Exciting news 📣
Tickets for our show are now available to buy, via Bath Spa Live!
Join us for ONE NIGHT ONLY, at 9pm, on 7th June 2021, at Widcome Social Club!
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bathspalive/
06/05/2021
Today, on this the 6th May,
Its time to vote-
Spend it wisely!
There are many elections going on up and down the UK today- find out more by visiting: https://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/who-we-are-and-what-we-do/elections-and-referendums/upcoming-elections
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05/05/2021
Another hello,
From the CAHW fellows!
Today is a familiar face,
As Gabrielle takes her place,
Playing the role of Narrator,
We'll see more from her later!
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