PRESS RELEASE - January 18 2012
Hello, boys and girls and everyone else!
Just in time to beat the midwinter misery, join radical queer feminist burlesquers LASHINGS OF GINGER BEER TIME in their first foray into full-length foolishness! Yes, it's time for the very first Lashings of Ginger Beer Time Pantomime! Gleefully revelling in all the best elements of panto -- appalling puns, women in tailcoats and knee-boots, happy endings and slightly inebriated Fairy Godparents -- we're ditching the more faily bits of the pantomime tradition in order to fit in more jokes about weasels.
Life is far from a gay carefree idyll for poor Cinderella... tormented by her stepmother the vile Baroness Scratcher (most evil Tory in all the land) and horrible Snotty Stepbrothers Dave and Boris, she leads a miserable existence continually being forced to 'fulfil her obligations to society' by sweeping the floors and dry-cleaning the boys' Bullingdon jackets. It's definitely time for a Birkenstock-led revolution.
But things are also pretty tough for Princess Charlotte, heir to the throne of the magical kingdom of Harmonia. If she isn't married (to a man!) by her twenty-fifth birthday, she'll disappoint her father, destabilise her kingdom and worst of all, destroy the entire Royal Wedding tea-towel-printing industry. Just what is a lesbian princess to do?
Starring Lilka as Cinderella, Annalytica as Princess Charlotte and Sebastienne as the awful Baroness Scratcher, and introducing brand-new Lasher Cleopatra in her debut show, this feature-length panto features all-new writing, song, dance, comedy, romance and chaos.
Will the Baroness (BOO!) succeed in her wicked plan to steal milk from all the kiddies in the land? Will Cinderella (HOORAY!) get to the ball on time? And who will become the only polyamorous panromantic genderqueer asexual ambidextrous weasel farmer in the South-East Midlands? (UM....?!?)
