A wide ensemble dance fills the trailer-park set with performers spread between colourful caravans, blue-magenta haze and overhead lights.

Guildford School of Acting2025

The Great American Trailer Park Musical

The Production

Guildford School of Acting’s March 2025 staging of The Great American Trailer Park Musical brought the campy country-flavoured comedy to life with GSA performers. The production was directed and choreographed by Richard Roe, with lighting by Gabriel Finn and costumes by Alice McNicholas.

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Director: Richard Roe
Choreographer: Richard Roe
Lighting Design: Gabriel Finn
Costume Design: Alice McNicholas
Commissioned by: Guildford School of Acting
Photography: Steve Gregson

A headset-wearing technician works at a dimly lit control station with glowing monitors and rows of coloured console lights.

The empty trailer-park stage set is lit in blue, with two colourful caravans, palm silhouettes and open performance space.

A woman in yellow stands in a trailer doorway facing a person in an orange high-visibility vest in the foreground.

Three women in bright green, purple and orange costumes lean toward the audience together, singing with animated expressions.

Performers sit around the trailer-park stage while a woman stands centred under magenta and blue overhead lights.

A woman in a green costume laughs while snapping open a yellow fan against a dark stage background.

A woman in a satin robe holds a booklet close to her chest while a man stands just behind her in blue stage light.

A man lifts a woman in a yellow dress high in a blue-lit doorway while another figure remains in shadow nearby.

Two performers toss a white object in the air at centre stage as another performer watches in the colourful trailer set.

A veiled woman holding flowers stands close to a man in a blue suit beneath saturated pink and blue lighting.

A wide, dark stage view places a lone performer under a central bulb, framed by red-lit figures and two trailers.

A woman in a plaid shirt and red shorts stands on a small platform with her arms raised as seated performers watch.

A performer in plaid crouches low toward the front of the stage while the cast sit behind in red-pink light.

A woman in a red jacket and a man in denim stand face-to-face in front of a sparkling tinsel curtain.

A woman in orange leans through a brightly lit trailer window framed by patterned curtains and deep black surroundings.

Three women smile and lean out together through a glowing trailer window.

A woman in a yellow cardigan smiles from a trailer window while holding a small booklet.

A man sits alone against the side of a trailer washed in blue and purple light.

A man and woman hold hands and look at one another in warm stage light.

A man in a blue check shirt stands in sharp foreground while a woman behind him is blurred near the trailer set.

Two performers grapple and carry a woman in green across the stage beside a small set piece.

A red-haired woman in a cap and a tattooed man in a leather vest lean over papers on a table.

A woman in a red jacket holds a mailbox outside a yellow trailer, looking alert.

Three performers sit close together holding microphones under intense red stage light.

Performers drag and push large trailer-shaped set pieces across a smoky blue-lit stage.

A woman in a yellow top and inflatable ring takes a phone call inside a small trailer room.

Four women sing upward in a tight formation, one seated below the others, under bright stage light.

A woman in a red jacket stands in a trailer doorway with a suitcase while a man faces her from below.

A woman in a red jacket presses a finger to a man’s lips in a close, magenta-lit confrontation.

Three women in green, purple and orange disco-style outfits dance in a synchronized pose between the trailers.

A woman in a grey top with gold fringe spreads her arms and sings beside a yellow trailer.

A performer appears behind a stylized vehicle front in smoky darkness beneath a single overhead light.

Performers crowd inside a red cardboard car, facing forward under bright stage light.

A wide trailer-park view shows a woman seated on a bench, performers visible in windows and haze drifting through the set.

A woman in a white Armed and Dangerous T-shirt stares forward in front of a sparkling curtain.

A woman in an orange dress arches outside a yellow trailer with one leg extended in a dance pose.

A tattooed man in a leather jacket gestures urgently with a prop gun near a trailer doorway.

A man carries a woman in a pale yellow outfit in his arms as she points outward.

A woman in a floral dress kneels onstage, hair flying as she twists under a spotlight.

An ensemble gathers behind a woman in an Armed and Dangerous T-shirt, their faces stern under warm colourful light.

A wide stage scene shows performers in opposing groups pulling and leaning across the trailer-park set.

A woman in an Armed and Dangerous T-shirt sings emotionally in warm light with a red vehicle shape behind her.

A makeup artist adjusts a performer’s face makeup in close-up under cool blue backstage light.

The full cast stands centre stage with arms raised in a wide final tableau between the colourful trailers.

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