Dates 1998 Warwick Arts Centre Theatre Performances 4 Audience 1,667 Choreography Ben Evans Set Designer Chris Wilson Musical Director Chris Rees Lighting Designer Chris Vowden Sound Designer Martin Payne	Company (MTW) Music Theatre Warwick Cast Jean Barton Gareth Davies Nicky Faint James Harrington Adam Peck Stephanie Short Andrew Smith

Ensemble: Sinem Bingol, Gaynor Burton, Rachel Chamberlayne, Claudia Chibici-Reveanu, Donna Clark, Rachel Clark, Claudia Conway, Victoria Corlass, Hywel Davies, Alexis Dubus, Fiona Ferguson, Sarah Geliher, Paul Gray, Leon Hernandez, Eleri James, Oscar Johnson, Lydia Jones, Heather Kublin, Hongy Laffer, Sarah Lax, Nicholle Lennon, Jonathan Matthews, Oksana Miroshnichenko, Jill Officer, James Parker, Hannah Pettifer, Helen Philips, H Reader, Debbie Reason, Sam Smith, Freddy Sourgens, Anna Starkey, Richard Tonks, Anna Trapmore, Miriam Wright

Chess remains the most expensive and ambitious production ever attempted at the University of Warwick, and marked the first production by Music Theatre Warwick (then the Gilbert and Sullivan Society) in the Warwick Arts Centre Theatre in several years.

Chess had a cast of 51, an orchestra of 29 and backstage crew of 21; 46 microphones, 7 video monitors, 160 lights, a two level set with 8 moving components, 8 flying components, and over 200 cues. It is almost entirely through-sung and consists of 2 hours 30 minutes of music.

The production cost over £6,000, enormous for a student show. However, it played to nearly 1,700 people (86% of capacity), making it still the most attended student show in memory at Warwick and among the Top 5 selling shows at the Warwick Arts Centre of the season.