Sleeping Beauty
Written and Directed by Paul Johnson

To be performed in January 2012 at
St Anne's Hall.

Joanna Dodd
Peter Brooker
Pat Driver
Peter Nower
Emma Stallard
Callun Lewis
Beccy Gibson
Sam Atkinson
Becca Duke
Julia Coleman
Loic Thomarel
Paul Johnson

Producer

Sound Operator

Stage Manager

Lighting Operator

Front of House


Catering Manager

Paul Johnson

Catriona Lawrie

Becca Stafford

Cat Fox-Kirk

Orna Joseph
Rachel O'Reilly

Amanda Clarke

The castle Blackthorn is celebrating the arrival of a new baby, the Princess Aurora.  The woodland fairies have been invited by the Queen to be godmothers to the baby.  But the Queen has forgotten to invite one fairy, and Dryrot takes the snub very badly. She curses the child to die from the touch of the thorn of a red rose.  On Aurora’s eighteenth birthday, the Princess is tricked into touching a thorn. Although the fairies manage to reduce the curse, the Princess must sleep for twenty years, and can be woken only by love’s first kiss.  Finding an eligible Prince proves difficult...
    
Twenty years later, the curse is lifted.  A Prince is found, but he gets lost, Dryrot returns, and a battle royal ensues around the sleeping Princess.  Will the Prince awaken Aurora with love’s first kiss?   Will good triumph over evil?  Will Lester the Jester ever master his card tricks?  Has Prunella Pudding poisoned everyone with her treacle tart?  (Yes, yes, no, very possibly).

Jokes (old and new), song, dance, silly costumes and men dressed as women – yes, all the traditional panto ingredients are there, making ‘Sleeping Beauty’ a must-see show to banish the Post-Christmas Blues!