Ebor Players in their 2025 pantomime Dick Whittington
PROPS and scenery are being painted. Lines are being learned, forgotten and learned again. Songs are being fine-tuned. Yes, it must be pantomime time again in Bishopthorpe.
Preparations are well underway for Mother Goose, this year’s show by the Ebor Players at Bishopthorpe Village Hall, near York – the Players’ home since 1994 – where it will run from November 30 to December 5 in the society’s first ever panto to be set in Norway.
Written by Ben Crocker and directed and produced by Philippa Parrish, this fun, feathery and fabulous family show will be replete with the traditional cheering and booing, songs and laughter, nonsense and romance, colourful costumes and slapstick surprises, peril and villainous skulduggery.
Who will win the battle of good versus evil: Fairy Aurora or Smorg, the wicked troll? Can Mother Goose and her beloved Heidi escape the treacherous clutches of the Baron and his sidekick, Gonk? Will Freya and Sven find love amid the mayhem? What will the Grand High Snow Goose have to say about it all?
In the cast will be: Paul Brook as Smorg; Phil Pickering, Mother Goose; Denny Davis, Freya Goose; Remo, Heidi the Goose; Katie Pickering, Baron von Rumpensmakka; Amy Bruce, Gonk; Sarah Frankland, Sven; Vincent Loach, The Grand High Snow Goose, and Bella Rutherford, Bobbie Lay-Flurrie, Diane Curran, Jules Rutherford and Mhairi Dunn as Trolls, Snowmen & Choir.
Ebor Players in Mother Goose, Bishopthorpe Village Hall, near York, November 30 to December 5. Performances: 7pm, Monday; 7.30pm, Tuesday to Friday; 2pm (sold out) and 7.30pm, Saturday. Please note, the Wednesday and Saturday evening shows are adults only, with cabaret-style seating.
Tickets: £10 to £13.50, available from https://www.ticketsource.com/ebor-players/mother-goose/e-kkqzam. Alternatively, contact Ebor Players by phone on 07598 970060 or by email at [email protected].