“Oh yes we can…!”

Quakers in Reading raised the roof with a wonderful pantomime, written during a gathering at Charney Mannor, and directed by Izzy Brimalow. During the Courtly celebration of the birth of Princess Aurora, which was attended by fairies, giants, and Quakers, a wicked gate-crashing Quakeress hag put a curse on the infante. On her sixteenth birthday, following a hearty celebration with the Village People and some adventurous raoming, she pricked her finger and fell into a one-hundred year sleep. The trees and ivy of the enchanted forest covered the tower in which she slept, until she and other dormant Friends were discovered by two Quaker XR ‘greenies’. The curse was broken when these environmental warriors, Prince and Brigid, did the ‘magical’ Friendly handshake which we do at the closing of Worship. The wicked Quakeress was reconciled as her bitterness evaporated, which was celebrated with a cèili, that favorite dance of young Quakers, and we all lived, according to our values of peace, equality, truth and simplicity, happily ever after!