CINDERELLA

Cinderalla was the M.A.D. Company's first pantomime and was staged at Bohunt Community Centre on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th January 1992.

Hello, and a special magical welcome to Ye Olde Lyphooke Village for a unique production of everyone's all time favourite pantomime, Cinderella . Hearty greetings also from everybody in The M.A.D. Company (Methodist Amateur Dramatics), a brand new company based around the Methodist Church in Liphook.

If you enjoy watching our show, as much as we have enjoyed rehearsing for it, then it will have been a great success. We hope that you will play your part in the show, creating a real chaotic pantomime atmosphere.

The costumes, scenery, lighting and ancillaries have all been created by Liphook folk, proving once again what immense talent there is within our village.

Money raised from the production will be used to help both local charities and church projects. So sit back and enter into the magical world of pantomime, and above all, enjoy yourself.

Revd Phil Thomas (Thomasina)
Co-founder of Methodist Amateur Dramatics

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Everybody knows the Fairy Tale story of Cinderella, but you may notice a few changes in our version. Set in our own village, we hope that you will enjoy our interpretation of this delightful tale.

Cinderella's mother died when she was very young, leaving her and her father, Baron Breadline, alone in the world. As his business failed, they became penniless and rather than send his daughter to the workhouse, Baron Breadline married a rich, title-hunting widow whose one aim in life is to marry off her daughters to Royalty.

Cinderella is hated by her step-mother and step-sisters and treated like a slave.

She is doomed to a miserable life until one day ....

La Cenerentola
Some of you may have seen Rossini's opera La Cenerentola. This was first performed in the Theatro Valle in Rome on 25 January 1817 but includes none of the magic elements from Perrault's story. This is largely due to the pressures on composers at the time. Rossini moved between Rome and Naples to stage the first performances of no less than 6 operas between October 1815 and the premiere of La Cenerentola. Indeed, a month before the opening night the subject was only just decided and in that month the score had to be written and copied by hand, the cast chosen and rehearsed and the staging designed.
Rossini replaced the glass slipper with a pair of bracelets, and Angelina (the Cinderella character) is escorted by the tutor to Prince Ramiro who arrives dressed as a beggar and is treated kindly by Cinderella.
The prince and his footman disguised as each other toy with the attentions of the two sisters of Cinderella, Tisbe and Clorinda at the ball until Cinderella appears and wins the prince's heart.
The prince and the valet play the same game with Cinderella but she loves the prince (dressed as the valet) and is not tempted by the supposed power and wealth of the valet (disguised as the prince).
Cinderella leaves promising the prince that if he finds her and still loves her when he knows her true status, she will be his.

Long the lane that has no turning....Tutto cangia a poco a poco
Love and kindness can't go wrong.....Cessa alfin di sospirar

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