Welcome to SLAPS.
We are the Spilsby Local Amateur Pantomime Society
We are based in the Lincolnshire market town of Spilsby. We put on one pantomime a year, usually in February after the excitement of Christmas has waned and there is nothing to look forward to until Easter.
We do six performances in a one week season, usually to packed houses.
As the name suggests we are all amateurs, from the author (we usually perform our own scripts) to the stage hands and virtually any other job you could imagine for the production of a musical pantomime.
We are always on the lookout for new talent. If you would like to join us, drop a line to our membership secretary at geraldinewillis@outlook.com
You would be very welcome.
Rob Heane, Chairman.
About SLAPS
SLAPS was re-formed in 2011 after a nine year hiatus when we had no place to perform.
Now we are spoilt for choice and in the last two years we have performed 'Jack Bean and the Vegetable Plot' and 'King Arthur and the Four Bears' at the Spilsby Theatre.
The scripts are specially written by Mike Morgan and Ed Lane, the costumes made by local seamstresses, the sets designed and painted by local artists, and all the actors, singers and stage hands come from the local community. Then it was Cinderella and the Frog and Simple Simon and the Tale of a Pig and a Pie, followed by Robin Hood and the Lady who Lives in a Shoe and The Pirates of Spilsby Quay at the King Edward VI Academy, West End, Spilsby.
Speaking of community, the pantomime has a magical effect on bringing people of the town and its surrounding area together.
All performances, five evenings and one Saturday matinee, are all very well attended; the Friday and Saturday performances could be sold out twice over.
Joining SLAPS as a member costs just £2 per year and £1 for under 16s.
Contact: geraldinewillis@outlook.com
All photographs on this site were included with the kind permission of Mr David Pleming, Mrs Veronica Stonehouse, Mr Bob Willis.
Ms Vicki Ireland and Mrs Milly Milburn.
