Sleeping Beauty

It was January 1957 when Parish Players put on their first production of Sleeping Beauty, so it’s only appropriate that, seventy years later, the 2027 pantomime will be the same title, although not quite the same story!

Times have changed and panto changes too, and our script this year by uses an up-to-date version of the story which contains all the vital elements that make pantomime fun.  

The story of Sleeping Beauty was first  written down in 1697 by the French author Charles Perrault, who wrote many other stories we now know as pantomimes, but the origins of the story are in Ancient Persia. In the original version, the happy couple have to overcome the Prince’s mother, a child-eating Ogress; but don’t worry, she’s not in our version. We do have a dragon however… The Brothers Grimm wrote another version of the story which they called The Little Briar Rose. 

Expect all the usual panto ingredients - song, dance, jokes, booing, cheering, slapstick and fun for all the family.

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