Thursday 24 November 2011

PREVIEW: The Gabriola Players Panto - THE PIED PIPER

Above: Vivian Hart as the Pied Piper gloats over her captors: the Rat King
(BJ Godson), Rattles (Michael Kirkpatrick), and General Scurvy (Ginny Lowes), while Muddles (Nancy Jenner) looks on.

The Gabriola Players present:
THE PIED PIPER: THE TAIL OF THE RAT KING
This weekend. November 25, 26 and 27 at the Community Hall.

If you are seeking refuge from the cold weather and a remedy for the onset of the winter blues look no further. The Gabriola Players pantomime offering for this season, The Pied Piper: The Tail of The Rat King, will provide your cure with lots of belly laughs and the very therapeutic bonus of booing the bad guys and cheering on the good. Last evening's preview of was pure joy for old folk and new.

The show runs this weekend: Friday at 7 PM, Saturday at 1:00 PM and 7 PM and Sunday at 1 PM at the Gabriola Community Hall. Tickets are available at Artworks in the village, or at the door.
If you are new to the notion of a pantomime in the theatrical sense, there is an explanation included in the programme booklet.
But here is the skinny: It is a pantomime in the British sense...there are lots of demonstrative physical movements as in "miming," but also lots of dialogue in the Ancient Greek sense of "pantomime," meaning roughly a group who tell a story accompanied by music. The panto evolved in Britain to be an hilarious audience participation event where you can show your appreciation or disdain for the behaviour of a character by commenting, booing, hissing, or cheering as you see fit.

Catch this show and be prepared to have a great time.

For further information visit www.gabriolaplayers.ca

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