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Sunday, 29 December 2013

Watching Pierateers in Panto? Oh yes we did!!!

Programme Sponsor

In a first for Pierate, we recently sponsored our first event – as www.pierate.co.uk was the official programme sponsor of The Woodfield Entertainers 2013 pantomime “Captain Hook’s Revenge”, performed from Thursday 12th to Saturday 14th December 2013.

Representing the programme sponsors, I (Pierateer RAS) went to see pie rating pirates in panto in person! With a ticket to the Saturday matinee, I was treated to a lovely local production of the pantomime and had a good time afterwards meeting some of the cast in the local pub.

Did you know?
Captain Hook's favourite pie is a Melton Mowbray Pork Pie. (I asked him myself!)

Tonkerbell, Peter Pan, Dotty the Dame, Captain Hook and Sharkey

You’ll probably have guessed there aarrrrrghhh plenty of pirates in Captain Hook’s Revenge, and the opening scene aboard the pirate ship was awash with singing and dancing pirates and the introduction of Captain Hook himself! (Booooo!!!!) There was also a cheeky reference to pies by the Indian tribe in Neverland, who suggested having a buffalo pie for dinner and then rating it on Pierate! And you could tell that the naughty pirates would rather have baked a pie – not a cake – when trying to poison the Crocodile and Indian tribe part way through the performance!

The panto contained some very impressive singing performances from all the cast, a memorable performance from the comedy Dame, an unexpected version of “I’m sexy and I know it” by Captain Hook and “These wings are made to fly” led by Peter Pan and Tonkerbell the fairy! While the 7 Cs sadly don’t really work for rating a pantomime, I would certainly give 7/7 for content and a further 7/7 for enthusiasm and effort!

I’d personally like to thank Sara and all the wonderful group at The Woodfield Entertainers in Ashtead (Surrey) for making me feel so welcome and for a wonderful afternoon and evening. It was a real shame the pie I had in the pub with them afterwards didn’t live up to the high standards the performers reached but I wish them all every success in their future productions! And who knows, maybe I’ll pop down again for one of their future performances too!

For further info and future performances, do check out The Woodfield Entertainers website and @Woodies12 twitter feed.

RAS

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Sunday, 8 December 2013

Watching Pierateers in Panto? Oh yes we are!!!

You’d think that with so many exciting adventures aboard the Pierate Ship at present there would hardly be time for any more hot off the press news, but anyone who read our 4th Birthday celebration article will know that there sure is! For we can now officially announce that www.pierate.co.uk are the official programme sponsors of The Woodfield Entertainers 2013 pantomime “Captain Hook’s Revenge”, being performed from Thursday 12th to Saturday 14th December 2013.

Pirates of ~~the Caribbean~~ Ashtead, Surrey!

For those who haven’t guessed yet, there aarrrrrghhh plenty of pirates in Captain Hook’s Revenge, however after being approached by the local group based in Ashtead (Surrey) about our interest in sponsoring the programme, they kindly suggested that they might well have some Pierateers on board as well by slightly adapting the performance to ensure some yummy pies are eaten by the pirates in question and a cheeky little reference to Pierate – the web’s leading pie review blog – is made!

Next Saturday I (Pierateer RAS) will be heading down to the matinee performance to watch the show, so I’ll let us know how it goes! But if you want to see pie rating pirates in panto in person (now there’s a tongue twister!) then there’s still time to contact The Woodfield Entertainers to try and get your hands on their last remaining tickets! (Sadly the Saturday matinee is sold out now though!)

For further info, do check out The Woodfield Entertainers website and @Woodies12 twitter feed.

RAS