THE St Teath version of ‘Whistle While You Work’ has reverberated around the village hall a few times lately.

It was one of the audience participation numbers in St Teath Drama Group’s latest hit ‘Snow White and a Number of Little People’.

The panto, which had a bumper cast, was written by John Yates and adapted for St Teath Drama by Bob Fox. He and David Jasper produced and directed proceedings, whilst the storyteller was Sandra Phillips, and Alan Dawe ably accompanied on piano.

As always it was ‘the little people’ who stole the scene. Under the guidance of their ‘Gaffer’ — played by John Dunstan — Daniel Nicholas, Holly Johnson, Megan Prideaux, Holly Ferguson, Rosie Nicholas, Chloe Paul and Sam Coleman picked, shoveled, sang, performed and generally stomped about the stage, to the delight of the audiences.

The grown-ups, who seemed to enjoy themselves on stage immensely, told the grand tale of Snow White, well portrayed by Wendy Parkyn, who was loved by her father the King, Kevin Hargrave, and hated by her stepmother, the wicked queen — wonderfully played by Pauline Kent.

Of course, the Magic Mirror made an appearance, played by Elaine Fell, a Chamberlain, David Fell, and a glorious prince, handsomely characterised by Glory Lynham, who eventually rescued Snow White from a dreadful fate.

Into the plot came the palace cook — Jeff Sloggett — who can now be called an extremely attractive official ‘dame’, and his two half-witted assistants, Missing and Neither, played by Megan Sidgwick and Tikvah Williams.

There was also a couple of chumps called Pick, Sue Wilmott, and Mix, Diane Potter, who were the epitome of ‘baddies’, supposedly helping the queen with her evil plots.

Michael Casey and Kevin Hargrave also appeared as a couple of lovable yokels, although what they had to do with the main plot, one could not possibly imagine. Mention must be made of a yokel’s grandson, little Oliver Sloggett, who jumped up and down in all the right places and helped the yokels remember their lines!

This was Oliver’s introduction to the stage, and he loved it.

Two upcoming stars in panto land were also highly praised — Lucy Ferguson and Ruby Coleman — who played the Lady in Waiting and the Aide to the Prince. They were brilliant in their first real speaking roles.

There always has to be a good fairy, and it was Angela McGorrin who waved her magic wand again this year, and the animals were represented by Max Vince, who materialised as a really mean cat who was intent on stealing the palace’s fish, and Angus Lamond, who was the softest and cuddliest Yeti that ever frightened anyone, and who sang the blues!

There were three performances this year, all very well attended, very much enjoyed and very noisy, as well as a dress rehearsal with an invited audience.

Somehow everyone involved backstage finally brought everything together, and the producers and cast extended their thanks for all their time and hard work.

The list of jobs involved was endless, but included stage management, lighting, scenery, sound, stage scenery production, costumes, make-up, special effects, prompt, curtains, scripts, bookings, sales, publicity, front of house and programmes.

A special thank you was extended to Steve and Lyn from St Teath Stores and Post Office as they kindly sponsored the Tuck Shop.

A spokesperson for the drama group said: “Roll on next year’s pantomime!”