“Oh, yes it is”.
For its inaugural homegrown panto, the Lime Tree Theatre has chosen the evergreen Jack And The Beanstalk to light up the stage this Christmas as they celebrate their tenth anniversary.
As part of these celebrations writer Mike Finn and director Mike Finneran join the team to bring a brand new pantomime to the stage of the Lime Tree this December.
“Jack And The Beanstalk is our most ambitious project yet with 32 shows, a professional Limerick cast and plenty of familiar faces!” Lime Tree/Belltable Director Louise Donlon.
“It is hugely exciting to be returning to presenting big, home grown shows like the annual pantomime, in our anniversary year”.
She emphasised that the show will feature a whole new cast recruited from within the large and enormously talented pool of performers in Limerick and its environs.
Open auditions will take place in the early autumn.
With fifteen previous panto scripts to his credit, Mike Finn returns to the genre with a sparkling story full of magic and surprises while Michael Finneran directs an all-star local cast in an all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza for the entire family.
What with Brexit, inflation and not being allowed to sell turf, Jack and Jack’s mammy find themselves financially embarrassed. There’s nothing for it but to sell their only cow, Milky White.
When Jack swops the bovine beauty for a handful of beans, mammy is furious, but when a beanstalk taller than Paul O’Connell appears in their garden, the adventures are only starting. Will the end justify the beans? Find out at the Lime Tree this December.
Jack and the Beanstalk kicks off on December 9th.
Tickets here: https://limetreetheatre.ie/events/jack-and-the-beanstalk/
