The Swineherd and The Princess and the Pea

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August 2005

St Edmund’s Hall, Southwold and Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Jill Freud Children’s Summer Theatre

A play based on the two popular stories by Hans Christain Andersen for all the family with plenty of audience participation. A prince in search of a wife is turned down by a spoilt princess Disguised as a swineherd he gets his own back through the use of a magical pot and a musical rattle. Then one stormy night a stranger appears… Two actors and a puppet multi role play in this funny, charming and interactive version of the two combined stories linked by the disillusioned prince who eventually finds a real princess with the aid of a pea.