Jubilee Supper Theatre, Jubilee Hall, UKZN from 3 Nov
Preview from 3 Nov, press night 10 Nov
This year’s outrageous saucy adult panto - Sinderella – comes to Pietermaritzburg’s Hexagon Theatre from 29 October, and then to the Jubilee Supper Theatre (a brand new venue) Lamont Rd (very near UKZN) in Durban for a lengthy festive season run from 3 November.

The new comfortable air-conditioned Durban venue offers ample safe parking and easy access. The venue will be set with venues which seat eight patrons per table. Patrons may bring their own meal. If you book a whole table or more, it is possible to pre-book a delicious custom-made gourmet picnic through Ailsa Windsor from Going Places. Prices range from R120 a head upwards. There is a full bar – patrons who bring their own will be subject to corkage.

“Sinderella is such a treat and eternal crowd-pleaser, that we couldn’t resist staging it again,” says producer Sue Clarence.

The cast features Anthony Stonier (in his 14th year – he has performed in every adult panto), Thomie Holtzhausen and Junaid Cassidy who were both in the panto last year; the unstoppable Rowan Bartlett as Buttons; and newcomers Rikki Hastings (as Sinders) and Daisy Spencer (as the Fairy Godmother).

Three performances at the Hexagon Theatre: 29 - 31 October @ 1930. Bookings through the Hex on 033 260 5537.

All other booking through Computicket ONLY. First performance in Durban 3 November. Press night 10 November.
Sinderella queries: 083 250 2690.

ADDITIONAL INFO:
Clarence’s esteemed colleague Earnest Diddler esq. (B.Smut Doc. Philth) had this to say:
“You must understand that this is a Museum Piece…a classic collection of some the most venerable knob jokes in the English language (some pre-dating Chaucer by several hundred years…the last remnants of the Great Plagiarism that ravished…. Sorry Ravaged the medieval panto world). As such, many of the more fragile entendres are in a somewhat fragile condition and may not withstand the unsubtle handling of your usual cast of cured meats (well, there are a LOT of hams and generally a sizeable salami hidden somewhere.)

“Now, the cost of insuring vintage smut is, as you are aware much higher than that required to underwrite (or underwire) other ancient artefacts (such as the Stonier Bouffant and the Grecian Gurn of the high Court) which is a concern, but marginally less so than my degree of concern about the degree of coverage you will be giving the ruined temple of Stonier this year. Portions of this much-loved structure (cheekbones, eyelids etc) appear to be migrating Southwards at an alarming rate and all of us at the Council for Theatrical Antiquities earnestly hope that you will treat one of Durban’s stately homo’s with a bit more deference this year (perhaps a nice wooly shawl? A sensible Boksburg tracksuit instead of fishnets?)

“Now as to your proposal…I have earnest doubts as to whether Sinders can survive a nine week season and the ever widening age gap between her and her increasingly decrepit sisters is now stretching the boundaries of credulity (their father would have to be a viagra popping sex-fiend of about 250 to have fathered children at this interval) This DOES pose also pose a safety issue (the Hexagon stage has NO wheelchair access.)

“Be that as it may madam - that is your issue and what with keeping your annual mob of plonkers, scrubbers, letches and lurchers on track and on stage for another run (hopefully sold out too – Durban is after all the amnesia capital of the Southern hemisphere!) money should be the least of your worries – tell me what you can afford and you can have the creaking, throbbing, heaving, crotch thrusting, spandex stretching mass for a whole year – voetstoets, with my blessing.”