WRITTEN by Lynda Radley, with music by Michael John McCarthy, this Cinderella – with its pronounced concerns for ecology, the power of protest and the uses and abuses of social media – is enough to send the “anti-woke” brigade into paroxysms of concocted outrage.
Welcome, then, to Willow Grove Farm, where the orphaned Ella (that’s Cinders to you and me) busies herself tending to her prize carrots. Meanwhile, her wicked stepmum, Lenore, plots to ruin the greenbelt land so that the local council will agree to its sale to the splendidly named uber-capitalist Apollo King.
Add to that Ella’s step-siblings Florence (a would-be management guru to A-list celebrities) and Laurence (a comically conceived online influencer). As if that weren’t enough, our hero’s best friends (welly boots Leftie and Rightie) go through a sudden anthropomorphism.
