• This celebratory, music-filled, ensemble pub-based comedy, where the heroes are local and the locals are all heroes, is about the life-saving powers of community, compromise and compassion. Especially in those moments when all our happy hours seem to be behind us.

    Thomas Heywood’s Elizabethan romp The Fair Maid of the West featured in the Swan Theatre’s opening season in 1986. It was redefined and modernised by Isobel McArthur (Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)) and played in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon Avon from November 2023 to January 2024.

  • Director - Isobel McArthur

    Designer & Spanish Consultant - Ana Inés Jabares-Pita

    Music - Michael John McCarthy

    Lighting - Sinéad McKenna

    Sound - Niamh Gaffney

    Movement - Emily Jane Boyle

    Dramaturg - Pippa Hill

    Fights - Claire Llewellyn

    Music Director - Tarek Merchant

    Voice & Text - Jeannette Nelson

    Associate Director - Martin Leonard

    Design Assistant - Caitlin Abbott

    Casting Director - Martin Poile

    Translator & Spanish Consultant - Rosalind Harvey

    Photo by Ali Wright © RSC.