Southbank Centre is the chosen place to set up home by the play The House with Chicken Legs based on the novel by Sophie Anderson and Adapted by Oliver Lansley. Running from 13th-30th December 2023. Twelve-year-old Marinka (Eve De Leon Allen) lives with her Grandmother Baba Yoga (Lisa Howard). Although…

Groundlings Theatre Portsmouth hosts Puss In Boots directed by Bradley Barlow for their 2023 Pantomime. The funny and entertaining panto for all the family certainly captured the imagination of some of the younger audience members who were cheering and jeering along throughout the performance. Puss In Boots, played by Erin…

Pantomime season is now well underway across the country. NewVictoria Theatre Woking is hosting Peter Pan The High-Flying Panto Experience. Starring Paul Chuckle (Starkey), Antonio Du Beke (Smee) and Nigel Ellacott (Mrs Smee). Archie Durrant takes to the sky as Peter Pan the boy who never grew up. Full of…

New Wimbledon Theatre’s Christmas pantomime for 2023 is Cinderella The Fairy Godmother of Pantos starring Craig Revel Horwood as the Wicked stepmother Baroness Demonica Hardup along with magician and performer Pete Firman as Buttons and the beautiful fairy Godmother, Alison Jiear. Prince Charming (Solomon Davy) falls hopelessly in love with…

The Mill at Sonning is a beautiful location set on the River Bank in Sonning, Berkshire. Where better to host the socialite wedding of the year between Tracy Lord (Victoria Serra) and George Kitteridge (Will Richardson) in their latest in-house production High Society. However, the path of true love never…

Cinderella A Traditional Pantomime by writer, lyricist and director James Barry is based on the original folk tale. However, this latest version has been modernised and current topics written into the storyline to allow the audience to relate and engage with the script. Cinderella (Millicent Blair) and Prince Charming (Max…

Hook and Peter Pan fly into King’s Theatre, Portsmouth for the 2023 Christmas season in Hook The Further Adventures of Peter Pan. Featuring Portsmouth stalwart Pantomime Dame of nine years Jack Edwards in the role of Mrs. Smee. Edwards jointly wrote this year’s pantomime with Paul Woolf. Shaun Williamson (Eastenders…

FALLING By Roger Goldsmith. Meet Ella (Francesca McCrohon) and Ben (Aaron Holdaway) two people living separate lives in different parts of London. Struggling with understanding and navigating through the breakdown of relationships. Ben has it all (on the surface) a four-bedroomed house in a desirable location in London, BMW on…

Salisbury (shire) has the colourful production of DICK WHITTINGTON for their 2023 annual pantomime. Writers Plested, Brown and Wilsher take Dick Whittington (Will Carey) to the streets of London to attempt to make his fortune to help “do up” Salisbury. Leaving his Mother, the Pantomime Dame Sarah the Cook (David…

Before the opening of The House with Chicken Legs at the Southbank Centre I managed to catch up with Co-Director James Seager who started by explaining where his interest for the story came from. My daughter had read the book at school and mentioned it to me at the exact…