Out & About Winter 2019

Adam Brown

The popular Corn Exchange pantomime has become one of the town’s fun-filled family traditions, attracting more than 20,000 people from Newbury and beyond each year, packing the venue to the rafters with uplifting and catchy songs, high energy dance routines, comic thrills, plus plenty of magic and sparkle. This year’s Sleeping Beauty is written and directed by comedy theatre company Plested & Brown (comprising Clare Plested, Adam Brown and Amanda Wilsher). Audiences will be familiar with Clare and Adam and their infamous double-acts in previous pantos, the last being Sleeping Beauty in 2010, and their stint as resident theatre company at New Greenham Arts. TRISH LEE spoke to the company ahead of rehearsals.

Clare Plested

Beauty & the Beast

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