A racy new pantomime is reimagining Cinderella for the dating app generation.
Tinderella: Two Big Balls, One Happy Ending! is an adults-only comedy from Happy Ending Pantomimes, coming to Blackwood Miners' Institute in Blackwood on January 21.
Peter Bull, co-producer of Tinderella, said: "Adult pantomime should have all the joy, silliness and campness people love about the traditional pantos they remember seeing as a kid, but this time, we’re telling the story you really want to see."
Audiences can expect outrageous characters, bawdy humour, popular songs with witty rewrites and plenty of audience participation in this filthy reimagining.
In this version, Cinderella becomes Tinderella, a social-media obsessive whose glamorous online persona disguises a rather less successful reality.
Described as having "no money, no relationship and little prospect of escaping the life she shares with her formidable stepsisters", Tinderella’s fortunes change when she encounters not one, but two princes.
The story unfolds with romance, rivalry and a competition involving a pair of "unusually prominent balls", as Tinderella attempts to decide which royal suitor might provide the happy ending she has been swiping for.
Theatre & Tonic called the show "energised" and "flamboyant", while QueerGuru described it as "a fabulous filthy panto with the right balance of feeling dirty and feeling good".
A spokesperson for Happy Ending Pantomimes said: "The producers stress that the production is intended exclusively for the ‘big kids’ of the family.
"Actual children should be left safely at home, along with anyone expecting the Cinderella story to remain entirely respectable."
Tickets are available now via the Happy Ending Pantomimes website at www.happyendingpantomimes.com/tinderella.
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