In the Bleak Midwinter

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.

• Kenneth BranaghDirector
• Kenneth BranaghWriter
• Jimmy YuillOriginal Music Composer

• Michael MaloneyJoe
• Richard BriersHenry
• Joan CollinsMargaretta
• Nicholas FarrellTom Newman
• Julia SawalhaNina
• Celia ImrieFadge
• John SessionsTerry Du Bois
• Jennifer SaundersNancy
• Gerard HoranCarnforth
• Mark HadfieldVernon Spatch
• Hetta CharnleyMolly
• Adrian ScarboroughYoung actor