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Snow White and the seven dwarves

31st January, 1st, 7th & 8th February 2025

By Michael Brennan

Directed by Martin Pratt

Cast List

Dame - Cookie   Chris Moss
Bystander 1   Yvonne Featherstone
Bystander 2   Fiona Hobdell
Bystander 3   Linda Peters
Bystander 4   Sally Thornton
Bystander 5   Jessie Sparkes
First King   Sheila Wright-Anderson
Old King Cole   Neil Williams
First Princess   Phia Scott
Princess Snow White   Grace Murrell
Lord Chamberlain   Mark Chapman
Frankie the Valet   Charlie Sparkes
Lady Louise   Eliza Bennett
Catchitt   Wendy Freeman
Grabbitt   Gary Herring
Queen Esmeralda   Tracey Hardy
Spirit of the Mirror   Katy Peters
Fiddler 1   Jessie Sparkes
Fiddler 2   Leo Watkins
Fiddler 3   Sheila Wright-Anderson
Prince Lancelot   Leo Watkins
Prince Leopold   Patrick Broad
Robert the Hunter   Martyn Peters
Dwarves: Dicky   Yvonne Featherstone
Micky   Jessie Sparkes
Nicky   Linda Peters
Ricky   Leo Watkins
Sicky   (week 1) Sally Thornton
(week 2) Samamtha Milne
Tricky   Fiona Hobdell
Vicky   Phia Scott
Dancers   Sophie Albury, Sophia Bartlett, Isla Campbell, Ivy Campbell, Evie Gardiner, Hayley Gibb, Skylar Gibb, Maisie Gregg, Samantha Milne, Jasmine Moss, Louis Moss, Jesica Sandford, Jess Sherlock, Darcey Smith, Maddi Smith, Jessie Sparkes, Willow Steere and Hadassah Young

Creative Team

Technical   Alan Hardy
Choreography   Susy Puckett
Wardrobe   Katherine Clayton
Stage Manager   Sue Smith

The Crew

Assistant Choreographer   Jess Sherlock. Assistance by Rhiannon Thomas
Musical Direction   Mark Chapman
Stage Assistance   Neil Williams and Sheila Wright-Anderson
Technical Assistant   Ines-Angel Milne
Set Design   Martin Pratt
Set Build   Friends of the Society
Scenery Artists   Sue Smith, Yvonne Featherstone, Clive Bordoli and Martin Pratt
Chaperones   Susy Puckett, Rhiannon Thomas and Friends of the Society.
Front of House   Clive Bordoli and Friends of the Society
Box Office   Sheila Wright-Anderson
Posters and programme   Martin Pratt

Acknowledgment

Backing tracks by courtesy of PPL PRS Ltd: Taylor Swift, Deee-Lite, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons (cover), Del Shannon, Space, The Tourists.

Notes

“Snow White” is a German fairy tale, the Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection Grimms' Fairy Tales.

Snow White's widower father, the King, remarries. His new wife is very beautiful, but a vain and wicked woman who practices witchcraft. She possesses a magic mirror, of which she asks "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" The mirror always tells the Queen that she is the fairest. The Queen is always pleased with that response because the magic mirror never lies. One day, the Queen again asks her mirror the same question, it tells her that Snow White is now the fairest. This gives the Queen a great shock. She becomes envious, and from that moment on, her heart turns against Snow White. Eventually, she orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the forest and kill her. As proof that Snow White is dead, the Queen also wants him to return with her lungs and liver, so she can eat them with salt. The huntsman takes Snow White into the forest, but after raising his dagger, he finds himself unable to kill her and allows her to flee. After wandering through the forest for hours, Snow White discovers a tiny cottage belonging to seven dwarves where she takes shelter and falls asleep. She awakes when the dwarves return and explains about her stepmother's attempt to kill her. They take pity on her and let her stay with them in exchange for a job as a housemaid, warning her to be careful when alone at home and to let no one in. The Queen believes she is rid of Snow White until the Mirror tells her that she is living with the dwarves. Unable to control her hatred, she disguises herself and tries to kill Snow White firstly by lacing her so tightly in a bodice, that she faints, then another attempt with a poisoned comb before finally feeding her a poisoned apple which causes her to fall into a coma. A Prince stumbles across her in a glass coffin and the dwarves allow him to take her back home for a proper burial, but upon moving her, the apple dislodges from her throat and she magically recovers. The Prince is overjoyed by this, and he declares his love for the now alive and well Snow White, who, surprised to meet him face to face, humbly accepts his marriage proposal. The Prince invites everyone in the land to their wedding except for Snow White's stepmother.

The Queen, believing herself finally to be rid of Snow White, asks again her magic mirror, who is the fairest in the land. The mirror says that there is a bride of a Prince who is yet fairer. The Queen decides to go to the wedding and investigate. Once she arrives the Queen becomes frozen with rage and fear when she finds out that the Prince's bride is her stepdaughter, Snow White herself. The furious Queen tries to sow chaos and attempts to kill her again, but the Prince recognizes her as a threat to Snow White when he learns the truth from his bride. As punishment for the attempted murder of Snow White, the Prince orders the Queen to wear a pair of red-hot iron slippers and to dance in them until she drops dead. With the Queen finally defeated and dead, Snow White's wedding to the Prince peacefully continues.

Source: Wikipedia.