Jack and the Beanstalk plays at The Capitol, Horsham until 2nd January 2012.

Dame Tilly Trott is the proprietor of “Tilly Trott’s Circus”, but times are hard. The beans grow overnight into a huge beanstalk which Jack climbs into the clouds, arriving at a magical land and changing his fortunes! Jack may well have his head in the clouds, but he could do with a bit more fee-fi-fo-fun in his life. It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 and as Benjamin Tabart's moralised "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807. With a snarling and gravelly voiced Villain in the form of Connor Byrne and a sweet Principal Girl played by Hannah Robertson, Jack and the Beanstalk is good old fashioned fun for all the family.
Henry Cole, publishing under pen name Felix Summerly, popularised the tale in The Home Treasury (1845), and Joseph Jacobs rewrote it in English Fairy Tales (1890). Cornish folklore remembers Blunderbore as living in Ludgvan Lese (a manor in Ludgvan), where he terrorized travelers heading north to St Ives.In "Jack the Giant Killer" he is the second or third giant (along with his brother Rebecks) killed by the hero Jack. The stories usually associate him with the area of Penwith. " Jack the Giant Killer " " Jack and the Beanstalk " is an English fairy tale. Dame Dolly Durden's family farm has fallen on hard times - Squire Snuffbox is demanding the rent and Giant Blunderbore, with his wicked sidekick, Fleshcreep, is terrorising the land. Jacobs' version is most commonly reprinted today, and i… Come prepared for melodious moo-sic, madness, cattlestrophic costumes and glitter aplenty in this magical winter treat for all the family. Giant Blunderbore and his horrible wife insist on sending their henchman, Fleshcreep (played on his knees), to the village of ‘Much Piddling in the Marsh’ to collect the taxes and do their dirty work. It appeared as "The Story of Jack Spriggins and the Enchanted Bean" in 1734 and as Benjamin Tabart 's moralized "The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk" in 1807. A number of folk and fairy tales include a giant named Blunderbore, most notably "Jack the Giant Killer". Jack and the Beanstalk delivers laughter, sparkle, special effects and more; there were not many scenes that did not deliver a laugh or the customary shout out ‘oh no you aren’t!’ Mammy Nature (Angela Darcy) tells us that she can help the villagers of Glasvegas defeat the Giant Blunderbore; but the suitably dressed in black Mrs Blunderbore is ready to throw obstacles in the way. See him star as Dame Daisy in the same pantomime with which he began, Jack and the Beanstalk. According to a recent article from the BBC, researchers at Durham University have classified “Jack and the Beanstalk” as a “Boy Who Stole Ogre’s Treasure” tale, a classification which has origins that could be “traced back to when Eastern and Western Indo-European languages split more than 5,000 years ago.”

"Jack and the Beanstalk" is an English fairy tale. Blunderbore (also recorded as Blunderboar, Thunderbore, Blunderbus, or Blunderbuss) is a giant of Cornish and English folklore.