Five stars for a performance that was funnier, more engaging and more inventive than virtually any theatre production aimed at young children I’ve ever seen? Or four stars, a fifth eclipsed in quiet lament at the...
Read MoreThere are many things to be spied at Chester Zoo. Some are majestic – a lioness roaring, or a male orangutan lumbering around his enclosure – and others are merely predictable. Into the latter camp goes the sight of...
Read MoreIf Vic and Bob wrote a panto and had it produced by the League of Gentleman and performed by the cast of Big Train, it would probably look a bit like Spymonkey’s Christmas Carol. Not exactly like it, however. This new...
Read MoreRoll up, families seeking a pre-schooler-friendly Christmas production without a cast full of X Factor semi-finalists and too many flashing lights. Roll up, lovers young and old of Julia Donaldson’s globe-conquering books. Roll...
Read MoreIt takes a brave panto producer to take a much-loved fairytale – the very same one, no less, that CBeebies used for their own televised Christmas stage show last year – and mess about with it quite as much as the...
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