The Peel Pantoloons really let their hair down with their panto production of the fairy tale ’Rapunzel’.

Featuring a great cast of local amateur actors, who clearly had a ball acting out one ridiculous scenario after the other, ’Rapunzel’ was held at the Peel Centenary Centre over five nights and seven plays, each one performed to a sold out audience.

Emma Chapple played the hirsute heroine, who finds love with the handsome prince, played by Mel Read, and escapes from a magical tower, deep in the forest.

Help, if you can call it that, was on hand from a cast of colourful characters, such as Willie Widdle, played by Tim Keyes , Nurse Hannah Hairspray, the traditional Panto dame, played by Mark Britton and an unlikely trio of magical fairies.

They fought against the wicked witch Gothel and the henchmen, the hapless comedy duo Socket and Ball.

Janet Corran was in her element as the fabulously evil, cackling witch, and Craig Killey and Mark Cain were the bumbling bad guys.

A stand out moment had to be the fight scene, fought with wonderful comic timing and a riotus sense of side-splitting slapstick, between the Nurse and Socket and Ball.

All credit must go to the actors, and to the Pantoloon’s director Michelle Cain, for creating such a brilliantly entertaining and funny show, one that had adults and children alike laughing and cheering along.