Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The production team under Clive Rush assembled a good cast for the script, and even original music to accompany (Billy Hoddy-Brown).

Good to see so many younger members playing in this production and how good their diction: those seven dwarfs were perfect in appeal as a team, knew their words and were an important focus of the story. Very clear words and sparkling presence from Cora St John Cooper as Fairy Fortune, she had the situation sorted. In the title role Freya McKeating had looks and a lovely personality, survived the wicked queen’s plots and met happiness with her Prince Ferdinand, Susie Clarke:  these two a well-balanced and delightful young pair of performers.

The two ‘baddies’ had a good time with their wickedness, Queen Avarice from Samantha Jones was everything needed to frighten, loved the makeup, she played the part to the top of scare scale and every entrance raised the level. Her Mirror partner could not help herself, but Susie Jowett took every opportunity for being unpleasant at top pitch.

And to the comedy: Louise Casson gave a polished and well timed, pushing all chances, performance as Edna Bucket, loved her appearance and all her actions, great. And Chuckles (Oliver Allen) had the misfortune to be Queen’s Jester to cope with, jokes suitably expected, and worked well with the Dame. Jimpy Casson as Justice Quill with sidekick Scribbles (Richard Peat) made a good fun duo trying to keep up with the Queen’s plotting and managed to foil plans in more good timing. And not to mention that awful handyman Slurp from Ian Webb, nice interpretation. Also to say the ‘ensemble’ backed the younger cast and kept on an even keel with their experience in the story and different scenes.

Must mention that excellent set made especially by a big team, a lot of work for all those scenes and how good it looked to create atmosphere. And the new costume team did so well with creating that wardrobe, plus an active makeup team (so good for the society to do so much themselves and it all gave the right feeling to back the actors).

A fun evening much enjoyed noisily by the audience, what a pantomime should be.

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