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Review
From
the Leamington Courier:
Pigs
Made Audience Squeal
Three
Little Pigs are not the usual stars of much loved fairytale Little
Red Riding Hood.
But
Rasher, Streaky and Smokey stole the show in the Cubbington Players'
pantomime version of the story.
Cath
Staton, Jill Mowlam and Chris Ward had the audience howling with
laughter with their antics, and turned an otherwise touching moment
into comedy when they became backing singers during shy boy Romeo's
(Guy Bishop) rendition of What Can I Do To Make You Love Me.
Mark
Frampton played a wonderfully larger-than-life Dame Bea Day, the
estate agent looking for love with the wood cutter (Mike Calvert).
The usual pantomime chants of 'he's behind you' and 'oh no you're
not' were there, but thankfully not overplayed.
And
the youngsters had a chance to get up on stage and imitate seals,
leprechauns and a duck-billed platypus.
But
there was the odd adults-onlyjoke sneakily thrown in to keep the
grown-ups amused too.
Paul
West's Big Bad Wolf Slyboots was a joy to watch - a loveable
rogue with an obsession for fashion vanity.
The
set was appropriately bright and cheerful and the script hilarious.
But
although the witch and the wolf took turns, there was not really a
strong pantomime baddy to encourage the audience's cries of 'boo hiss'.
The
wolf was excused for being bad because he was under an evil spell,
and the witch did not move from her seat throughout.
However
the Cubbington Players gave an evening of laughs and deserved more
than the half-full auditorium they received on the first night. 3/5
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