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Continue reading →: The Last Days of Liz Truss by Greg Wilkinson.
On September 5th 2022 Mary Elizabeth Truss became Prime Minister after meeting with the late Queen Elizabeth invited her to form the next government. Full of ideas about tax cuts, borrowing and energy price guarantees she wanted to make radical changes without proper planning and consultation. By October 25th, fifty days…
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Continue reading →: Christmas in Exeter Street by Cordelia O’Neill.What is the true meaning of Christmas? With all the commercial advertising and consumerism the meaning more often than not gets lost and the season becomes about “stuff” instead of what’s really important, whether that’s family, friends or simply being there for someone. Christmas in Exeter Street opens the story…
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Continue reading →: Sleeping Beauty by Jon Monie.Sleeping Beauty at The Anvil in Basingstoke is an all-round family based Pantomime this season. On offer are plenty of rhyming verses, singing, dancing and some risqué comedy which flew over the younger audience’s heads (luckily). Fairy Snowfall (Joanna Adeyinka-Burford) and her direct enemy Carabosse (Jenny O’Leary) cast their magic…
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Continue reading →: Cinderella adapted by Eric Potts.
The pantomime season for 2024 is now well underway. Most Theatres up and down the country are hosting a festive production for all the family. Fareham Live recently reopened this year and the all-sparkling glitzy production of Cinderella offers a wonderful seasonal family treat. The storyline sticks to the traditional…
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Continue reading →: Sleeping Beauty-New Wimbledon Theatre.
Woking has gone all out spectacle this Christmas with its production of Sleeping Beauty with all the glitz and glamour you expect from this venue. Alan McHugh’s script has broken away from the traditional Pantomime formula and has dispensed with the Dame. The curtains open with panto legend Christopher Biggins,…
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Continue reading →: Jack and the Beanstalk at New Wimbledon Theatre.Advertised as The Giant Pantomime Spectacular New Wimbledon Theatre plays host to Jack and the Beanstalk starring the incredible singer Alexandra Burke in the role of Mrs Blunderbone. Burke raised the roof of the auditorium on several occasions singing a couple of her well-known songs. The storyline roughly sticks to…
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Continue reading →: Chris Jarvis is in conversation about Sleeping Beauty.Taking time out from the busy rehearsals CBEEBIES star Chris Jarvis speaks about the Poole Lighthouse 2024 Pantomime Sleeping Beauty. Having landed three national Panto Awards in recent years, the Poole pantomime is increasingly widely recognised as a high quality, fun-loving annual celebration of traditional family entertainment at Lighthouse. In…
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Continue reading →: Dick Whittington.
The Corn Exchange Theatre in Newbury is a delightful, friendly and intimate theatre. Volunteers and staff join in to help to get the show going and immediately the audience is engaged in hand clapping and humming along to the music. The show is classic pantomime fare in all it’s silly…
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Continue reading →: Mother Goose at Theatre Royal Winchester.
Theatre Royal Winchester have hatched a fantastic pantomime for the 2024 festive season with Mother Goose written by James Barry and Robin Belfield who also directed. There’s something for all the family in this festive tale of love, vanity and acceptance. Where Jack Goose (Liam Watson) and Jill Squeezum (Daniella…
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Continue reading →: White Christmas by Irving Berlin.
The Mill in Sonning hosts the charming and festive production by Irving Berlin this season of White Christmas. The story of two ex-army pals who decide to team up with a pair of sisters and put on a glamourous show to save their former General’s remote Vermont ski lodge which…
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