Return to Chiswickia with Mother Goose

This year's pantomime from the St. Michael's Players

A previous panto from the St. Michael's Players

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November 5, 2023

The ever popular St. Michael’s Players’ pantomime this year is to be Mother Goose.

Once again you are invited to return to Chiswickia and for this year's edge-of-your-seat, nail-biting, fast moving and egg-stravagant thriller.

The evil troll Smorg (from Actonia - boo hiss) and Fairy Aurora (from Chiswickia - hurrah) wager Mother Goose is corruptible. However, once Heidi, the goose starts laying golden eggs, the money rolls in and that attracts local ne'er do well, Baron Ivor von Trakmeind and his hopeless sidekick Gonk who hatch all sorts of cunning ruses to bag Heidi. Smorg, meanwhile is offering Mother Goose untold beauty with only one dip in the Bog of Beauty. But only if she'll sign Heidi over and thereby also win the wager with Aurora.. What a cliffhanger. Who wins? Who loses? Where do the eggs end up? Only one way to find out.

There will be six shows over five days from 5 to 9 December at St Michael’s Centre, Elmwood Road, Chiswick, (W4 3DY). Evening performances begin at 7.45pm with a Saturday matinee at 4pm.

Tickets are available online from £8 or cost £14 on the door with cash accepted.

Cast :
• SMORG (Alastair Dewar)
• FAIRY AURORA (Rachel Fay)
• MOTHER GOOSE (Paul Smith)
• FREYA GOOSE (Stefanie Stretton)
• HEIDI THE GOOSE (Rosie Copping)
• BARON IVOR VON TRAKMEIND (David Burles)
• GONK (Guy Fairbank)
• SVEN (Alice Klapwyk)
• CHORUS (Cecilia Coleshaw, Claire Richmond, Christine Lee, Sue Darrieulat, Jo Harry, Chris Jones, Arabella Harcourt-Cooze, Imogen Measday, Amelia Barker, Elizabeth Ollier, Vicki Belcher, Rebekka Hyde, Srishti Sinha) who also play these roles
• THE GRAND HIGH SNOW GOOSE (Arabella Harcourt-Cooze)
• CUCKOO CLOCK (Chris Jones)
• BOSS SNOWMAN (Elizabeth Ollier)
• SNOWMEN 1, 2 & 3 (Cecilia Coleshaw, Claire Richmond, Imogen Measday)

Musicians:
• Nick Lawrence - Musical director and keyboard
• Ken Herbert, Utku Er - Guitars
• Tony Wood - Bass
• Dominic Meloni - Drums
• Sue Stamper – Percussion

Set, props, lighting, costume and backstage team members:
• Bryony, Susan, Andy, Gareth, Gemma and Kay

St. Michael's Players is one of the longest established drama groups in London. It has been staging plays in West London since 1949. In a good year it will present two full length performances in the Spring and the Autumn, a one-act play in the Summer and its famous panto at Christmas.

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