Beauty and the Beast (Not Your Parents’ Fairy Tale) 2023

In the continuation of our gothic horror anthology series, we meet Belle. A curious, intelligent girl who is living a life lacking any adventure. When her father, Marcelle, goes out to see about one of his damaged merchant vessels, he is lost and taken captive by a hideous monster, Phillipe, and his two minions, Gabrielle and Petra. Belle switches places with her father and is content to live out her life with these fantastical creatures, until she is introduced to the evil Acacia. After learning of Acacia’s evil plans to destroy the world, Belle and company desperately search for ways to defeat her. With some added help from a wizened sorceress and former professor of natural philosophy, our rag tag group of heroes bands together to stop the evil Acacia once and for all.

The cast of Beauty and the Beast after their final performance.

Actors (left to right): Eric Bowman (Marcelle), Ryley Trottier (Mirror), Stacey Pollard (Petra), Tracy Fouts (Gwydion), Morgan Marie (Belle), Breanna Helms (Gabrielle), Nate Huff (Phillipe), Josh Gibson (Professor Krempe), Adrian Blackwell (Gaston), Katherine Gibson (Acacia), Omar Jurdi (Renault)