Poppy

Name: Poppy
Director: David G. Hillier
Released: 1984-01-01
Duration: 120 min
Cast: Ken Wynne, Nichola McAuliffe, David Firth, Christopher Hurst, Andrew Thomas James

January 1, 1984

2h 0m

Poppy is a celebration of Victorian values and exposes the hypocrisy, racism, drug dealing, money worship and sexual repression of the time through its favourite entertainment form, pantomime. Dick Whittington, his man Jack, Sally the Principal Girl, the Dame, two pantomime horses, a flying ballet, a transformation scene and even the traditional song-sheet are all brought on to tell the serious and finally devasting story of the single most profitable crop of the British East India Company.