Cinderella’s sisters: Male and malevolent

A kaleidoscopic splash of good old-fashioned fairy-tale magic

Once upon a time, in a land not very far away at all, there lived a young girl named Cinderella who, rather predictably, had a thing for charming princes. She lived with her two adorable and beautiful step sisters, watched over by her kind, saintly, soft-spoken step mother. Or did she?

If you can call not-exactly-identical twins in florescent feather boas, skyscraper hairdos, giant spectacles and hairy legs, beautiful, then you wouldn’t be far off the mark, though you may be in serious need of psychiatric help, or at the very least, some training in aesthetics!

A kaleidoscopic splash of colour, song, dance, fun, glamour and good old fashioned fairy tale magic are woven together, with a good measure of jokes and satire, poking jibes at just about everything under the sun on this island – politicians and everything to do with them, as always, bearing the brunt of them, more so than ever in this particular production.

FM Theatre Productions’ pantomime Cinderella, with Edward Mercieca and Toni Attard as the beautiful (not), man-eating sisters, and Jo Caruana as Cinderella, all sweet and innocent as she should be, is on at the Manoel Theatre in Valletta until January 9.