Thursday, 9 April 2015

Blog #1 - What's it all about? An Introduction...

This blog is mostly about... a traditional British panto in the South of France.  In particular it is about the panto performed by the Secret Pantomime Society.  SPS is an amateur theatre group in Pibrac, a small town just outside of Toulouse.

For now, I thought I'd write about what goes on behind the scenes throughout the SPS year.  I'd like this blog to show background snippets of the workings of this panto from start to finish throughout the year - January 2015 to January 2016.  I'm doing this for my own benefit as a diary and for anyone to read who might be interested.

So I'll begin...

Around December to January each year a little panto egg is laid by the 'panto chicken'  .  The egg hatches just after the last show of the previous panto, and by the following January it has become (all being well) a beautiful clucky show chicken!
pantomime chicken with fresh 2016 panto egg!

That clucky lady is a rather fine bird by the time she's ready to do seven shows, but there is a lot of growing to do in order to get her show-ready.  We will follow the progress of our panto 2016 egg shortly after it has hatched, and I will show you how it grows! But, enough of the daft chicken metaphors...

Actually I haven't started this blog right at the beginning, it's already April!  Never mind.  I will start from the beginning, it's a very good place to start... Next blog will be about how we had the idea of which panto to do, and the script.

As I am a bit behind with this, I'd better crack on!

(no chickens in the next blog post!)


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