Sleeping Beauty

Sleeping Beauty opens at Exeter Northcott on Friday 27 November, running through to Sunday 3 January. It's a pantomime from Le Navet Bete and the theatre, co-written by the company and by Martin Berry, the Northcott's Creative Director and Joint Chief Executive, who also directs. This is his third Christmas show at the venue, and it comes from the same team that broke box-office records for four years running. It's already the fastest-selling panto in the Northcott's history, billed as a festive treat with laughter, dazzling costumes and toe-tapping tunes.

Jessica Ncube plays Princess Aurora, with Josh Haberfield as DJ Prince and Jodie Micciché as Maleficent. Nick Bunt is the King, Al Dunn plays Fred and Sprout, and Matt Freeman is Nanny Nellie, with Emma Nelder, Amy Cray-Edgell and Molly Felaco in the ensemble. Ncube and Micciché both return to the Northcott after playing urchins in the theatre's October production of Little Shop of Horrors, and Haberfield comes off the UK tour of Rock & Roll Man. Kim Healey handles the choreography.

The run is built around a few different ways to see it. There are exclusive schools' performances for children aged 5+, and four 'No Kids Allowed' adult shows with more adult humour and swearing. There's also a BSL-interpreted performance, a captioned show, a relaxed performance and an audio-described one, with a 'Panto Pandemonium' finale on 3 January. The show runs for 140 minutes including the interval.

Performances are at 11:00, 14:00, 14:30, 15:00, 15:30, 18:30 and 19:00, with 14:00 matinees on Saturdays and 11:00 matinees on Sundays. Tickets are £21.50 to £70.00, with children under 16 getting £2 off.