Your multi-award-winning drama group is staging a pantomime this year, Alice in Cuckoo Land, following on the heels of ‘The Shaftesbury Tales’ in summer last year, ‘This Secret Isle’ last November, ‘Potato Pete’ at the VE80 event in early May and ‘Cinderella’ mini-panto at the May Fair this summer.
The characters you will meet this November mostly originate in Lewis Carroll’s Alice books, but the plot of this pantomime certainly takes them into uncharted territory!
As well as welcoming back David Wellstead into the Dame role, we sport Nick Jubber and his son Rafe from Langton, as the Hatter and – well, you will have to come and see it to find out just what Rafe is doing this time! Alongside a very furry Karen Stevens, we also welcome back Dee Stephens as one of the Tweedle twins (partnering Emma Lacey), there’s stage debuts for Julie Blinkhorn as the Knave of Hearts and Ellie Morris as Chester, while musical keyboard skills are provided by the incomparable Eve Baker.
Below, you see evidence that rehearsals in “full swing”, fun and games by all! As you can clearly see, try as she might, our amazing director for the production, Paulette Stephens, cannot escape from the photographer by hiding under her table!
Performances in Corfe Castle Village Hall are on Thursday to Saturday, 27th – 29th November at 7:30pm, with a matinée on Saturday 29th at 2:30pm. Tickets are £10 Adults, Children £5, under 5’s free. 10% reductions for groups of 10 & over.
Tickets are available from Corfe Castle Village Stores or at www.ticketsource.co.uk/double-act-drama-group via the link at the top of our home page!
Original text and photographs by David Kemp and Peter Smith respectively.
Artwork by Sonia Smith.
‘Alice In Cuckoo Land’ is a Pantomime by Peter Nuttall.