Sleeping Beauty
Every year this little theatre produces a great panto and this year is no exception. It is always child-friendly and fully focused on entertaining younger audience members. This is a tale of Sleeping Beauty with a twist in the tail - it features a Prince played by a sprightly Richard Pepper, who arrives on a bicycle to awaken the sleeping princess and explains to the bemused King Couer-de-Loup - played by sword welding Andrew Wheaton - all about the advent of the railways since they have been slumbering.
The princess, played perfectly by Helen Hurd, will not marry the Prince, but after a lot of talk about trains and bicycles and a spot of time in the dungeon, they fall in love and all is right with the world.
Caribosse is played with buckets of wickedness by Kathryn Martin, who has a strong singing voice - which can not be said for poor old Nanny Fanny Chuckabutty, played by Adam Russell-Owen, who scrapes through various songs sounding like he smokes 40 a day. It all adds to his character.
Written by Graeme Garden of The Goodies fame, it takes a while to fill out and is a bit slow in places.
Production information
- By:
- Graeme Garden
- Management:
- Chipping Norton Theatre
- Cast:
- Andrew Wheaton, Richard Pepper, Nicki French, Dereck Walker, Adam Russell-Owen, Carys Williams, Kathryn Martin, Helen Hurd
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Run sheet
- Chipping Norton Theatre Chipping Norton
- November 19 2008-January 10 2009
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