BEMERTON Players take centre stage once again in their latest production of Sleeping Beauty.

It should have been the groups 45th pantomime production but due to Covid preventing any performance last December, Sleeping Beauty will be the 44th production in Bemerton Players' illustrious list of family pantomimes that the company has been producing at St Michael's Community Centre since 1976.

"We all really missed it," said Mel Smith, the co-director this year. "I remember waking up one November morning last year with a feeling of excitement and slight nausea as had become usual at that time of year, well at least for the last 9 years, and then I remembered..... there was no tech rehearsal that day and no dress rehearsal the next and no panto for the rest of the week!"

Sleeping Beauty is the the tale of the evil fairy Carabosse (Vickie Hill) casting a spell on beautiful Princess Aurora (Jess Mabey) so that when she pricks her finger on a spindle, she falls asleep for a hundred years. Prince Charming (Aki Chum) may save her, but not before dame Nursie Nelly (Simon Smith) and Joey the Jester (Sally Marshall) turn the proceedings into hilarity and mishap, with plenty and singing and dancing on the way.

Performances are on tonight (Thursday) at 7.30pm, Friday 3rd at 7.30pm, Saturday at 2pm and 7pm.

Tickets from bemertonplayers.co.uk/tickets or on the door, at St Michael’s Community Centre, St Michael’s Road, Salisbury, SP2 9LE.

Watch some of their earlier pantomimes by visiting: youtube.com/bemertonplayers

 

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