"Sleeping Beauty"

A fairy story with attitude! An exceptional reworking of a classic fairytale. Yes, it's about that Princess who is cursed to prick her finger and fall asleep for a hundred years... But this Sleeping Beauty is seen through the eyes of the fairy who casts the spell in the first place... a bold, innovative, new approach to this much loved fairy story. Told from the point of view from the fairy. The play starts in the middle with the quirky fairy, Goody searching for a human prince among mythical and mystical creatures, to wake Beauty. Goody takes us back through the history. She shows us her spell to give the royal couple a child. She is both the bad fairy and the good one but the rest of this first story, most are familiar with. Beauty is wrapped up in cotton wool by her protective parents and there is a terrible clothes shortage due to the royal ban on spinning and spindles. Inevitably her desire for a new dress results in the fatal prick. Goody is asked to help a pregnant ogress who has unfortunately eaten her human husband. After all, that is what ogres and ogresses do, eat humans! The Ogress's poignant predicament is that she fears she may want to eat her own baby. Goody succeeds in saving the boy child who grows into a handsome prince, meets and marries Beauty, fathers babies Hector and Rose before all four humans are again in mortal danger from the Ogre and their grandmother, the Ogress. "You are what I call ugly!" says the Prince to the Ogre. "You are what I call breakfast!" says Ogre to the Prince. Characters required :- Old Goody (40+ female) Young Goody (18+ female) The Ogre (30+ male) Prince of Questions (20 – 30 male) Queen (40+ female) King (60+ male) The Minstrel (20 – 30 female) Beauty (18+ female) The Ogress (50+ male or female) The Tableslave (any age male or female) The Prince (18+ male) Ages are stage ages only and are flexible. A number of minor characters such as courtiers are also required. Doubling may be required. AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD AT HARBOUR THEATRE ON SATURDAY 23RD AUGUST FROM 1.00PM. For further audition information please contact the director Peter Kirkwood on 9364 7648 (after 5.00pm).