REVIEW: Snow White and the Magnificent Seven Dwarfs
Swanmore ADS,
Swanmore Village Hall.
WALT Disney collided head-on with the Wild West in SADS’ thoroughly enjoyable take on the premise of the well-known Snow White/Wicked Stepmother story set deep in High Noon territory, complete with a gun-toting Prince Charming, a Red Indian who spoke in rhyming couplets, an embarrassingly flatulent pantomime horse, and all the Brexit/Trump/Honey G gags you could wish for.
On Martin Letts’ attractively painted set, Annie Dillon’s sweet Snow White was finally wooed by Ben Pharoah’s slickly dressed gun-toting Marshall Vince Charming, having escaped from the clutches of Wicked Widow Blackheart (Brenda Lambert) with the help of seven unlikely-named Dwarfs (working ‘Mine to Five’ – geddit ?).
A most entertaining double act between Danny Jeffs’ Silly Billy the Kid and Roger Minors’ Nanny Oakley was the highlight of the evening, the former maintaining an impressively authentic southern drawl throughout, while the music ranged from Hoe-Down and Can-Can to Bryan Adams and The Blues Brothers.
Ed Howson.
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