Frodsham Panto Group perform Sleeping Beauty at the Community Centre, Fluin Lane

Jan 14 2010 by Paul Mannion, Chester Chronicle

PANTOMIME season is sweeping through Frodsham this week as the town’s performers takes to the stage.

Frodsham Panto Group bring John Morley’s version of Sleeping Beauty to the Community Centre, Fluin Lane, until Saturday.

The play tells the heartfelt story of Princess Beauty and her tyrannical parents King Fred and Queen Formica, who plan to have her wed to the best suitor from five wealthy hand-picked princes.

However, the wicked witch, Carabosse, places the princess under a spell, saying that, on reaching adulthood, she will prick her finger on a spindle and die. But a good fairy, unable to completely reverse the spell, says the princess will instead sleep for 100 years, until awakened by a prince and true love’s first kiss.

Poor Richard of Ruritania presents her with a red rose of love and the princess falls in love with him, rejecting the wealth and presents from the others suitors.

This angers her parents and all kinds of crazy adventures follow.

For more information visit www.frodshampanto.org.uk.