Beautiful and a little beastly!

This festive season a little holiday magic will dazzle on stage, pantomime
style, with The People’s Theatre production of Beauty and the Beast.
It will run from 7 November to 24 December.

Following the successes of Alice in Wonderland and Fun, Magic and Tales from
Africa, directors Jill Girard and Keith Smith have now brought this all-time
favourite fairytale to life. With a cast of delightful actors starring Gavin
Gomes (Beast) and Alexandra Snyman (Belle) as well as a spectacular set,
innovative, funky musical treatments and new songs that will make a
traditional favourite delightfully contemporary, this is Beauty and the
Beast in wonderful style.

The play tells the story of Beauty’s father, who picks a rose from the Beast’s
garden and gets caught. To save himself, he makes a promise to send his
daughter to the Beast when she is older. He does so unwillingly but in the
end, Beauty and the Beast fall in love…

To add humour and great antics, traditional pantomime-style spoilt-rotten
ugly sisters Cynthia and Prudence played by Nomsa Makhubu and Mary-Anne
Wright, a wicked fairy (Davina, played by Lebogang Mphahlele) and a good
fairy Koisanni (played by Noni Mkonto ) and an apprentice Fairy Dewdrop,
played on alternate days by Jaydene Marais, Skye Proctor and Miguel Da Silva
will keep the action going with compelling variety. A dictatorial
housekeeper (Mrs Bollocks, also played by Lebogang) has been added to the
script to keep audiences in stitches.

Sir Sid (Noni Mkhonto) and Sir Thomas Twit (Gavin Gomes) are the bumbling
suitors who try impressing King Ben (Gomes), while his younger daughter
Belle (Alexandra Snyman) treats a rather ineffectual father, Mr Brown (Adam
Pelkowitz) with great affection.

A delightful, colourful set by Grant Knottenbelt and beautiful costumes by
Linda Wilson make Beauty and the Beast a guaranteed winner for children,
teachers, mother and fathers. It is indeed, perfect family entertainment.