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It's Panto Time - Sleeping Beauty, Paperplays, Sherborne and touring Review of The Sleeping Beauty by Fanny Charles (Editor) - Blackmore Vale Magazine 28/01/05 "For the last few years, Joe Gladwin's Paperplays has been winning fans of all ages around the Blackmore Vale. Joe revived a traditional style of puppetry, with a miniature theatre and sets, and tiny figures which were moved in and out, mainly horizontally. His enchanting and atmospheric versions of stores such as The Hound of the Baskervilles and Dracula demonstrated that puppets can be spooky and scary, and definitely aren't just for children. Last autumn Joe and his wife Sarah decided to introduce a new larger style of puppet show, and they chose a perennial favourite fairy story, Sleeping Beauty, for their inaugural show. Drawing on their skill, experience and artistic ability, the Paperplays team have created a delightful and witty show, with lots of broad humour for the children (of all ages), strongly drawn characters, and a suitably hissable baddie. The puppets range from the feather-light tiny pink fairies, who bring their blessings to the royal baby to the wonderfully rotund no-nonsense nurse, (who reminded me of Scarlet's mammy in Gone With the Wind). The prince was defiantly contemporary, with a trendy hair-cut and street-wise attitude, while the kind and queen were more traditional fairytale figures. And the wicked fairy Carabosse was everything you want - surrounded by unpleasant familiars (spider, bat) and steaming cauldron. There were plenty of visual jokes, a good narration, excellent use of the much-loved Tchaikovsky, and it was all just the right length. There were good houses for the shows which toured village halls in North and West Dorset, and Somerset before and after Christmas. Paperplays will be taking Sleeping Beauty out on the road again later this year - look out for their adverts and news in the Balckmore Vale Magazine." Pages: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 Next >> |