Into The Woods
- Sep 16th 2009 7:30 pm to Sep 19th 2009 10:00 pm
- Sep 19th 2009 2:30 pm
Presented by The Nomads
Take the plots from a bunch of your favourite fairy tales and weave them into a single story, add words and music by Stephen Sondheim and you have Into The Woods…
The story revolves around a Baker and his wife who are cursed with the inability to have a child. Their next door neighbour is a Witch, who we find placed the curse on the Baker’s family because his parents stole from her garden. If the Baker and his wife want the curse removed, the wife has to enter the woods to find and collect a set of ingredients for a potion the Witch wants to make.
In their search for the ingredients, the Baker and his wife meet up with Jack (of beanstalk fame), Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and their respective Princes, each of whom is busy with their own fairy tale and each of whom has one of the ingredients for the Witch’s potion that the Baker and his wife need.
Using some morally debatable tactics the Baker and his wife manage to collect all the ingredients. By the time act one ends, Jack has killed his giant, is now rich, and owns a hen that lays golden eggs, the wolf is dead, Cinderella and Rapunzel have got their princes, the Witch has made her potion and been transformed into a beautiful woman, and of course, the curse has been lifted from the Baker and his wife, so everyone can live happily ever after…
Er well… not quite…
What exactly do you do with an irate giant’s wife who flattens your house and garden and is hell bent on revenge for her husband’s premature demise?
And what do you do when you’re now a Princess and your Prince has grown bored with your marriage as has happened to both Cinderella and Rapunzel, their husbands now lusting after two new princesses: Snow White and Sleeping Beauty?
If you want to know those answers, you’ll have to come and see the show…
16th – 19th September 2009 inclusive
7.30pm Nightly. 2.30pm Saturday Matinée
The Masque, Castle Way, Barton Seagrave
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday Matinée: £8.00 each
Friday and Saturday Evening: £10 each
Bookings of 10+: 10% discount
Ticket Hotline: 07857 186005
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