Join the Cinders party at Chipping Norton Theatre

Published on 06/12/2012 17:04

SWEETS, singalongs and surprises; Cinderella at Chipping Norton Theatre comprises all the traditional pantomime ingredients and much more.

The theatre’s 40th panto does not fail to deliver as it has the entire audience – both young and old – roaring with laughter and desperately chasing the sweets thrown to them (the Banbury Guardian team included!).

Despite having been in this country for five years, I had never actually been to a good old English panto until November 22, when I was invited along to Chipping Norton Theatre.

If all productions are of the same high standard as Chippy’s I have definitely been missing out!

Admittedly, I did not quite know what to expect when I first walked into the sweet little theatre quietly tucked away on the edge of the Cotswolds.

But when I walked out a few hours later, not only did I know what all the fuss was about but my expectations for forthcoming pantos are now sky-high.

Written by Ben Crocker and directed by John Terry, the classic tale introduces the audience to Cinderella who lives in Venice at the Casa Harduppo where she is bullied by her beastly step sisters Tutti and Frutti – brilliantly played by Richard Croughan and Shaun Hennessy.

Meanwhile Prince Charming is inviting all ladies to the Royal Ball but the evil sisters destroy Cinderella’s invitation. However, all is not lost as the Fairy Godmother sends Cinderella off to the ball, but on one condition – she must leave before midnight.

The Prince and Cinderella dance the night away but when the clock strikes midnight the magic starts to wear off and it is time for her to escape.

Cinderella is running until January 6. Tickets start at £8.50. Call 01608 642350 to book.

News

Looking for...

Featured advertisers

Jobs

Search for a job

Motors

Search for a car

Make Model Price from Price to

Property

Search for a house

Buy Rent

Bedrooms Price from Price from Price to Price to

What is a Cookie?
What is a Flash Cookie?
Can I opt out of receiving Cookies?
About our Cookies

Cookies are small data files which are sent to your browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome etc) from a website you visit. They are stored on your electronic device.
This is a type of cookie which is collected by Adobe Flash media player (it is also called a Local Shared Object) - a piece of software you may already have on your electronic device to help you watch online videos and listen to podcasts.
Yes there are a number of options available, you can set your browser either to reject all cookies, to allow only "trusted" sites to set them, or to only accept them from the site you are currently on.

However, please note - if you block/delete all cookies, some features of our websites, such as remembering your login details, or the site branding for your local newspaper may not function as a result.
The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
- Revenue Science ►
  
  A tool used by some of our advertisers to target adverts to you based on pages you have visited in the past. To opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Google Ads ►
  
  Our sites contain advertising from Google; these use cookies to ensure you get adverts relevant to you. You can tailor the type of ads you receive by visiting here or to opt out of this type of targeting you can visit the 'Your Online Choices' website by clicking here.
- Webtrends / Google Analytics ►
  
  This is used to help us identify unique visitors to our websites. This data is anonymous and we cannot use this to uniquely identify individuals and their usage of the sites.
- Dart for Publishers ►
  
  This comes from our ad serving technology and is used to track how many times you have seen a particular ad on our sites, so that you don't just see one advert but an even spread. This information is not used by us for any other type of audience recording or monitoring.
- ComScore ►
  
  ComScore monitor and externally verify our site traffic data for use within the advertising industry. Any data collected is anonymous statistical data and cannot be traced back to an individual.
- Local Targeting ►
  
  Our Classified websites (Photos, Motors, Jobs and Property Today) use cookies to ensure you get the correct local newspaper branding and content when you visit them. These cookies store no personally identifiable information.
- Grapeshot ►
  
  We use Grapeshot as a contextual targeting technology, allowing us to create custom groups of stories outside out of our usual site navigation. Grapeshot stores the categories of story you have been exposed to. Their privacy policy and opt out option can be accessed here.
- Subscriptions Online ►
  
  Our partner for Newspaper subscriptions online stores data from the forms you complete in these to increase the usability of the site and enhance user experience.
- Add This ►
  
  Add This provides the social networking widget found in many of our pages. This widget gives you the tools to bookmark our websites, blog, share, tweet and email our content to a friend.
- 3rd Party Cookies ►
  
  We use Advertising agencies to provide us with some of the advertising on our websites. These include (but are not limited to) Specific Media, The Rubicon Project, AdJug, AdConion, Context Web. Please click on the provider name to visit their opt-out page.

Join the Cinders party at Chipping Norton Theatre

Top stories

News