IT WAS an ugly affair at East End Park on Saturday.

But that was no comment on the standard of play by the under-fire Pars.

Instead, two stars of this year’s Carnegie Hall pantomime left Cinders at home while they dropped in to find their own Prince Charming from the 22 on offer at the Pars’ home game against Dundee.

The Christmas show’s Ugly Sisters, alias actors Ross Stenhouse and Sandra McNeeley, took part in a beat the goalie contest at half-time before they were hauled back to the Dunfermline theatre to swap football boots for ill-fitting glass slippers.

This is Ross’s fourth appearance in a Dunfermline panto and he is delighted to back.

His recent theatre includes Cinderella, Mother Goose and Babes In The Wood but when he’s not in panto he is also artistic director of Hopscotch children’s theatre company and has written over 50 shows for the company.

Sandra, who trained with the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is also no stranger to the Carnegie Hall.

She has worked with companies including Cumbernauld Theatre Company, Hopscotch, Stellar Quines, Pavilion Theatre, Byre Theatre, Take Two Productions, Raindog Theatre Company, Gaiety Theatre (Ayr), The Ships Company and Promenade Productions.

This year’s production of Cinderella is written and directed by Matthew Lenton and produced by Alyson Orr and the Carnegie Hall.

Matthew is aiming to build on the successful elements introduced in the Dunfermline theatre’s last two Christmas shows, Beauty and the Beast and Little Snow White, and to this end he has retained the same production team.

This is headed by Alyson Orr who is also a celebrated songstress with Glasgow-based group The Swingcats.

She has recruited fellow Swingcat Nikki Auld, formerly of children’s entertainment troupe The Happy Gang, for the show, where the emphasis is on music and song.