Puss in Boots

This is the story of a fairly magical cat and a pantomime littered with jokes. All the key characters are there, Puss, the ogre, princesses and the hero plus many others re imagined in this original and comic re telling of a traditional fairy tale. A kingdom is being plagued by a vicious ogre who is eating the inhabitants and the king is in need of hero to kill the beast but there isn’t anyone. Alf the non-descript hero of this tale inherits a cat from his deceased father. It turns out the cat is unusual in that he can walk and talk, goes by the name of Puss and is quite cunning and uses this gift to great effect, wheedling his master into the court of the king. Puss has his own ‘enemy’ the Cat Warden, who persists in chasing him throughout the story, but to no avail. The ogre meanwhile, agrees to stop eating the people of the kingdom if the king agrees to a marriage between him and the king’s youngest daughter, Rene. Alf by now is in love with the young princess and she with him. The king does not agree to the marriage and the ogre sets a plan in place for his henchmen to kidnap her. When the henchmen arrive at the castle there is some confusion as to who the real Princess Rene is. In a comical misunderstanding they dismiss the real Rene as a fake and they kidnap her two (uglier) sisters instead assuming one of them must be Rene and thereby covering all bases. The sisters eventually ‘persuade’ the henchmen to return to their own castle as they are all in love. Meanwhile Alf has concocted a ruse to kill the beast but the ogre sees through the cunning plan and captures him. In the end it is up to Puss in Boots to outsmart the ogre and kill him thereby saving his master and freeing the kingdom from the threat of being eaten. This duly done leads to a happy ending for all.