Students from Askham Bryan College were caught horsing around when staff from York’s Grand Opera House visited to launch the production of Victorian comedy Dandy Dick.
The production, which will be at the Opera House from August 14 to August 18, tells the story of the Very Rev Augustin Jedd, a pillar of Victorian respectability, who preaches regularly against the evils of horseracing and gambling.
However, a visit from his tearaway sister, Georgiana, leads him to risk all at the races, with hilarious consequences.
Starring Patricia Hodge and Nicholas Le Prevost, Dandy Dick will be directed by Christopher Luscombe.
Olivier Award-winner Hodge, whose career spans film (Betrayal, Behind Enemy Lines), theatre (Noises Off, Calendar Girls) and television (a BAFTA nomination for Hotel du Lac, The Falklands Play and Miranda), will play Georgiana.
Le Prevost, whose distinguished stage career includes many productions at the National Theatre, including My Fair Lady, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award, and, most recently, The Misanthrope with Keira Knightley in the West End, will star as the Dean.
Kay Lamb, from the college, said: “The students have thoroughly enjoyed setting up the course and participating in the photo; and we are all looking forward to seeing Dandy Dick when it comes to York”.
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