Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

I feel very tempted to review this as a junior show as it had so many youngsters in the cast.  There was a total of 31 juniors and children either dancing, acting as dwarves or providing the chorus, much needed in any production. They all showed great enthusiasm and undoubtedly learned a good deal of stage craft from the experience.  If we don’t encourage the younger generation to fall under the spell of Amateur Dramatics then the future of our societies would look very bleak.  The nine adult members of the cast worked hard to bring us the story line which was a very unusual version.  Snow White (Anika Lefreve) was portrayed as a tough and, in their words, feisty young woman quite capable of looking after herself.  She took on a fight with a dragon and killed it single handed which didn’t quite fit in with someone who ran away from problems at home.  Her singing was very strong throughout especially her song with the Dwarves and ‘Don’t stop believing’ which was beautiful. Her duet ‘Everything has Changed’ with The Prince (Helen Fallowell), who performed with panache, was impressive. Silly Billy and Dame Judi (Glen Cowlard and Robert Carpenter) thrilled the small children with their jokes, antics and plenty of sweets for the young in the audience and Alex and Xander (Nita Graham and Louise Anne Bateman) performed a good “Laurel and Hardy” type double act. Rose (Jo Williams) was a delight as the very unusual version of the Magic Mirror and Richard (Colin Barnes) looked the part as the Huntsman but the star of this production was the Wicked Queen (Beccy Cowlard) whose performance was head and shoulders above the rest being both impressive and thoroughly unpleasant from start to finish. 

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