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Christmas 2024  issue

Review of the Pantomime

In Once Upon a Time Land

Our story will begin.
With Cinderella skivvying

For most unpleasant kin.

Her glamorous stepmother,

Stepsisters both so mean,

Treat Cinders quite appallingly,

Their Palace made to clean.

A Royal Invitation,

Attendance at a Ball,

Delivered to each household,

Open to one and all.

Stepmum and Ugly Sisters

Excitedly prepare.

Determine Cinderella

Somehow will not be there.

Tear up her Invitation.
Poor Cinders is distraught.

In search of consolation

In kitchen, friends are sought.

Then meets her Fairy ‘God-Dad’

Quite sinister, but kind,

And magical Godmother,

Solutions now will find.

A ballgown and tiara

Make Cinders look the part.

In tiny coach and horses

To castle will depart.

A final word of warning

Delivered, that their power

Time limited, means Cinders

Must leave at midnight hour.

The guests are all enquiring –

“Who is this maiden fair?”

Prince Charming is enchanted,

And love is in the air.

But as the clock is striking

With sonorous intone,

It’s twelve o’clock and Cinders

Is forced to scurry home.

Bewildered and heart broken,

Only a token left,

A rather bendy slipper

Of glass, he holds, bereft.

Back at the Palace later

The Prince’s wish is learned.

Whoever fits this slipper,

A marriage will have earned.

The Sisters fail to pass the test,

Their feet are just all wrong.

But on our Cinders tiny foot

The slipper does belong.

And so a happy ending,

The Prince has found his bride.

And as with all good Pantos

There’s joy at Christmas-tide.

Janet Johnson

On Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 11th, 13th & 14th December, Horndean Amateur Theatre presented their 2024 Pantomime, Cinderella, at St George’s Church Hall.