Nottingham Playhouse Theatre's CINDERELLA Opens Today

Nottingham Playhouse this year presents Cinderella, Kenneth Alan Taylor's right royal entertainment. Featuring not one, not two but three of the most horrible dames in the land, Cinderella welcomes back Jeffrey Longmore as Dowager Duchess Devilla, John Elkington and Anthony Hoggard as Ugly Sisters Bella and Donna, Rebecca Little as Dandini and Danielle Corlass as Cinderella. This year's show continues Nottingham Playhouse's fine tradition of staging hugely popular pantomimes that are tailor made by the theatre for a fiercely loyal and enthusiastic local audience.

With sparkling song and dance routines, dazzling costumes and lashings of glitter, Cinderella proves that dreams really can come true for a beautiful yet lowly servant girl. Doomed to drudgery by her vicious stepsisters, Cinderella can only dream of escape and romance. Enter a glamorous Fairy Godmother armed with a pumpkin and a touch of magic to whisk Cinders from pantry to party. But with her sisters digging their ugly heels in, it's not an easy ride to Happy Ever After.

Eschewing off the peg bought-in pantomimes, The Playhouse is proud to be one of the few remaining regional theatres to produce its own traditional Christmas show. With their costume department using 1km of fabric, 0.5 km of fabric trimmings and over 100 pairs of shoes to make 71 original costumes, the props department getting through 25 glue sticks, 15 metres of pet bedding (to make snowmen) and hand-crafting a massive pumpkin carriage and the paint shop department using 550 litres of paint and 10 kilos of glitter, Nottingham Playhouse panto is one of the most lavish and lovingly produced in the land and is regarded as one of the best.

Cinderella tops off a hugely successful autumn season at Nottingham Playhouse under the artistic stewardship of Giles Croft that has included The Ashes, a new work about the fast bowling legend Harold Larwood which won four star reviews in the national press, Janie Dee and Rupert Wickham in Giles Croft's critically acclaimed production of Noel Coward's Private Lives and a lauded staging of Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, a co-production with Liverpool Playhouse.

LISTINGS
25 Nov 2011 to 14 Jan 2012

Nottingham Playhouse, Wellington Circus, Nottingham NG1 5A

Monday - Saturday performances
2.30pm and 7.30pm
Check with venue Box Office for timings on specific days

Tickets
£16.50 to £25

Box office 0115 941 9419

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