PICTURES

A little old lady arrives and asks if she can stay and watch the show. Sleeping Beauty is her favourite. She looks a little familiar.

She perches on her suitcase and tells the audience that she is a Fairy, in fact, she is the same Fairy Lilac that saved the original Sleeping Beauty. She offers to tell the children her story, but then decides it would be better to show them. She takes out her magic wand and transport the whole audience back to the beginning of the story.

We arrive in a One Upon A Time land, not so very long ago. Where the King and Queen are expecting a baby.

Fairy Lilac arrives and she has transformed into the young Fairy she was at the beginning of the story.

The baby will be called Aurora.
Fairy Lilac next takes us up over the rainbow to Fairyland, where we meet the other Fairies. First we meet Fairy GREEN; who cares for all living things {her wand has a Sunflower} & Fairy BLUE; the fairy of dreams and the oceans {her wand has a blue cloud and a crystal ball}. Then there is Fairy SNOW; who stands for purity and winter {her wand has a snowflake} and Fairy SCARLET; who's remit is Love {her wand has a Heart}. All the Fairies are named after colours.
They have all been invited to the Christening of the new baby princess and they discuss what gifts they will each give her. But Lilac is having trouble thinking of a suitable gift. Soon their minds turn to the marriage of the King and Queen when they were all invited except Fairy Dredd. At the merest mention of her name she arrives. Fairy Dredd is the most powerful and as her name suggests the most dreaded Fairy. She is dressed in black and her wand has a skull, she holds dominion over the night and death. She is not pleased at not being invited to the Christening, but still she has a gift for Aurora. Her gift is a curse; that on her 16th Birthday Aurora will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die.
Fairy Lilac returns to the Castle to comfort the King and Queen, but they are interrupted by the arrival of Fairy Dredd, who makes sure that no one is in any doubt that she intends to carry out the cure on Aurora.

The King decides that the only way to stop her is to have all of the Spinning Wheels in the land destroyed.


The task is given to Mr. Johnson and his team of Gardeners. Black and Decker and Fly and Mo.


































