Sleeping Beauty - What Really Happened Poster
The show is a colourful fairytale packed with songs, dance and live music. The performance is choreographed and directed by Katarzyna Frycz and Urszula Frycz. The music for the show has been composed by jazz musician Urszula Szczepanek
An inclusive and unique community theatre project, created by Formont Day Centre Production, the show features a great original script and score, as well as a live jazz band, cast of service users, staff, professional performers & Ex Eastender actor Peter Dean. The play involves a cast of people with learning and physical disabilities, and it is the second production of its kind following the success of The Wizard of Oz staged at Millfield in 2011.
Peter Dean, who played market trader Pete Beale, taught future stars of Sleeping Beauty – What Really Happened at the Millfield Theatre in Silver Street, Edmonton. The actor, who appeared in the soap for eight years, said: "I worked with the Formont Centre two years ago on the Wizard of Oz helping with direction and playing the Tin Man and it was a terrific success". Katarzyna and Urszula Frycz are Polish theatre artists based in London.
Urszula Szczepanek is an award winning jazz pianist, film music composer, sound designer and music arranger. She is a graduate of the Piano Performance and Music Technology programme, awarded with a First Class Honours Degree at TVU, where she received the Vice’s Chancellor scholarship. In 2007 she won a composing competition and released an album called “Bird Strike”, and has appeared as an artist-musician of the new generation in many UK polish newspapers. She is also a laureate of the 2010 LCM Jazz Awards Prize for Innovation and Individualism.
Millfield Theatre opened in 1988 in the grounds of Millfield House on Silver Street in Edmonton, North London. The theatre has a lively and broad based programming policy and presents drama, dance, musicals, alternative cabaret, variety, popular music and children's events. Millfield also presents a major professional pantomime which is produced in-house.
The performance is supported by Arts Council of England and the London Borough of Enfield.
Performance Details:
21st and 22nd of February, 2013, 7pm
Millfield Theatre
Silver Street, Edmonton
London, N18 1PJ
Editor: SRS
Source: Polish Institute in London www.polishculture.org.uk, Millfield Arts Centre, http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk