COLL PANTOMIME AND CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS PARTY.

Last Xmas Eve Coll Players presented 'Jack and the Beanstalk' after the Childrens' Xmas Party in the Village Hall. This was a delightful and slightly more ambitious pantomime than the previous year's 'Snow White comes to Coll'.

The highlight of the extremely humorous panto was the scene set in the Giant's house where Jack arrives looking for food and refuge. Hiding behind a beer barrel, he sees the Giant tucking into a hearty shepherd's pie with a real live sheperd in it. Lots of tomato ketchup rounded off the tasty dish! The pantomime went without a hitch, was very well received and finished with hearty applause and lots of hand-drawn curtain calls.

CAST Jack - Alan Brodie: His Mother - Pete Smalley; Giant - John English Giant's Wife - Lavinia Bristol; Cow(Daisy) - Karen Taylor/Moira Maclntyre; Bull - Ali Anderson; Hen - Neil Morrison; Piermaster - Sue Galbraith; Salesman - Lee Bell; Giant's Dinner - lain Cochran; Narrator - Vicky Greaves; Costume - Fay Anderson; Director - Mike Taylor.