This irreverent production is everything you want in a panto – the pantomime dame (Ross Muir), well loved songs, laughter, ‘oh no it isn’t’ banter and amazing costumes and set – all with a Guinness world record breaking juggler (Jay Rawlings) thrown in for good measure.

Is evil Underlord Patrick Monohan (or Underpants as he becomes known) the most entertaining pantomime villain ever? Yes!! His mischievous villainy awaits those who sit in the front row at their peril.

This is the first leading role for Marcavia McCarthy as Princess Ariana (Sleeping Beauty) and by the standard of this show, she is sure to have a bright future. Celebrity Michael Auger is inspired casting as Michael the Gardener. A Prince Charming for our times (waking the princess with a rose rather than a kiss), Michael’s clean good looks are the subject of gentle teasing throughout the show, culminating in a hilarious take-off of the Diet Coke Break ad to the tune of ‘I just want to make love to you’.

But it is Katie Pritchard, as fairy Amethyst, who steals the show with her incredible singing – what a voice!

In my opinion, if you are looking for an outing with the family this Christmas holiday, this is the show to see!

Wonderful performance filled with amazing songs and talented performers. A magical retelling of Sleeping Beauty for the whole family with a set that transports you back (and forth) in time and lighting and special effects to match.
Muddles never ceased to entertain with his skillful juggling acts and the Evil Underlord is one evil dude (also a great rapper)! The audience engagement made the performance the awesome experience that it was and so did the amazing singing voice of Amethyst the fairy (her spells weren’t too bad either).
Sleeping Beauty really fit the part and lit up the stage with her beauty and talent, as did her mother, Dorothia.
The jokes were current and hilarious with references the whole family could understand. There was high visibility of the stage from all seats in the house and no audience member was safe from the jokes of the Evil Underlord. The dances blew us away, some even terrified us too, and my 12 year old said it was the best pantomime he’d ever been to.
If you are looking for a traditional pantomime or a truly a great night out with the family, Sleeping Beauty is worth going to Worthing for.

I must admit that I do not like pantomimes much, they are too loud, and I would usually just go and watch a normal show. Because of this I had exceptionally low expectations walking into this performance, but I did enjoy it very much and it is the best pantomime performance that I have ever seen and was extremely entertaining.

I would recommend this pantomime to any child or adult. One of my favourite parts of this pantomime was the interactions with the audience- and I think that the actor who portrayed this the best was the Evil Underlord as he improvised jokes with the audience as well for example, “Pringles” and bringing members of the audience up on to the stage which enhanced the experience as a member of the audience.

Some of my favorite lines in the play were “Stop eating pringles,” “I always thought that you two would make a good couple” and “Oh that boy.” I also enjoyed some of the directors’ choices to add a comedy asset to the play for example: the Barbie scene, Eminem, the Tardis sound playing when we leapt one hundred years into the future and other modern themes added into the performance.

My favorite character was Muddles: as not only did he have and excellent personality as a character, but the actor plays him very well and stayed in character the entire time; he also had a lot of stage skills for example: he could balance lots of items on his chin and juggle lots of items as well.

One thing that I must note that I found impressive is the side characters (non-named characters) is the time in which they had gotten changed as they would go from scene to scene changing extremely fast- not just clothes but sometimes accessories as well for example: the wigs that were used for the kens in the barbie scene.

My favorite backdrop (by far) was the beginning one with just the fairy on stage but with the story she is telling and the curtain where you can see through when light is shined on it, this was a nice choice on the directors behalf as it shows the story going on behind but using the cloth: implies the idea that it is not in real time but rather in the past. I enjoyed the costume designing for this show as most of the characters did not change costume at all however, for the characters that did change costumes they kept the same characteristics for example for the queen of the play she would have over the top sparkly colorful clothes on with a pink wig for Barbie and though this outfit was only seen on stage for about two minutes all of her other outfits were over the top just like that one.

One of the things that I think could have been improved on in this performance was the length of it (Not to be extended) I did not mind the overall length of the show, however, I felt that even though every joke that was said was funny, some of them went on for too long and stopped being funny and that was the only thing that I thought could have been improved on.

Another thing that I just loved about this pantomime was the lighting as when some of the music battles came on the light colour would change depending on who was singing and when the bad guys snuck up on the good guys the lights would go red and darker.

In conclusion, this performance was executed well and was fun to watch with great actors, modern adaptations, lighting, costumes, and an overall high-quality performance.