A new musical telling the story of the resilience of the Sub-Postmasters and their families.
Pentabus and New Perspectives announce the co-production for Make Good, a new musical about the Post Office Scandal inspired by sub-postmasters’ interviews and performed with a community choir in each venue.
"If we knew that this was going to happen to us, that we were going to become criminals by buying a Post Office, we would never, ever have done it.” Sub-postmaster
For twenty years Sub-Postmasters all over the UK were jailed for stealing money that never existed. Directly informed by conversations with affected Sub-Postmasters, Make Good dives into these most local of stories, capturing the raw emotion, the betrayals, and the collective disbelief that this could be happening to innocent people.
This new musical, three years in the making, tells the story of the resilience of the Sub-Postmasters and their families, in what is now recognised as the gravest miscarriage of justice in British history. Can the Post Office ever make good the damage they have done?
“The musical is full of feeling. And that’s what we need to portray to people now, so that they can feel and understand what we felt, all the heartache that we went through. The songs bring so much to the story, they’re heartfelt and there’s humour in it too, it’s funny. It made me smile as well as being touching.” Sub-Postmaster
Victoria Brazier will play Elsie, performing in her second Pentabus/New Perspectives co-production following Crossings, rising star and Spotlight Graduate Finalist 2023 Charlotte Delima makes her professional stage debut as Indira, Samuel Gosrani (Robin Hood: The Legend. Rewritten and The Lovely Bones) will play Mohandas, and acclaimed performer and comedian Ed Gaughan will play Postman.
Victoria Brazier commented, “I was so chuffed to be offered the role of Elsie. These sub-postmasters were ordinary people living and working in towns and villages just like those we will tour to. Their lives were destroyed by the weight of so many lies. I want to honour their stories and be part of trying to prevent something similar happening again.”
Make Good will preview at Ludlow Assembly Rooms on the 18th and 19th October, then tour for 6 weeks until December 1st, including dates in Nottingham, Kent, Cornwall, Dorset, Yorkshire, and across the Midlands, as well as two nights at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, London on the 8th and 9th November 2024.
Make Good is a co-production between leading rural theatre companies Pentabus and New Perspectives, each celebrating their 50th anniversary and a combined 100 years of rural touring.
Make Good: the Post Office Scandal - 8th & 9th November 2024
Venue: Omnibus Theatre,1 Clapham Common Northside, London SW4 0QW
7:30 PM + 2:30 & 7:30 (FRI & SAT)
£18 STANDARD
£16 CONCESSION
UK Tour: 18 Oct - 1st December 2024
Further Information & Tickets: MAKE GOOD: THE POST OFFICE SCANDAL - Omnibus Theatre
Image: Clockwise from top left: Victoria Brazier, Samuel Gosrani, Make Good poster, Ed Gaughan and Charlotte Delima.