PTA PANTOMIME

All parents love seeing their pride and joy on stage in the annual school play or concert. Whose heart hasn’t filled with pride at their youngster’s perfect diction and Oscar worthy acting ability? And they make it look so easy, wouldn’t it be fun for the parents to put on their own performance for the children to enjoy?

This may not have been the argument used by Producer Mandy Walker when she started recruiting parents and friends of Bushmills Primary School for the pantomime Aladdin, but whatever argument she did use she soon had a troop of mostly willing volunteers. With a school governor in the title role and the principal playing his/her mother surely success is assured.

A member of the Board of Governors and the Principal consult!

More Brian Willis photographs

Pictures courtesy of Causeway Arts Studio

An outsider was headhunted to direct the production, she would be able to shout at everyone, and anyone not acting was expected to support the show in some way. The people of Bushmills are well known for their generosity, the school frequently raises embarrassing amounts of money for charity, and this venture was no exception. Everything from the script to the scenery, designed and manufactured by Brian Willis (Causeway Art Studio), was begged, borrowed but hopefully not stolen; the local police sergeant is one of the players.

The show ran over two nights, the 29^th and 30^th January at 7.30pm, in the school, admission was by ticket only and cost £3 each. All profits to school funds.

Bushmills Primary School