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Bafflement is an underused word. But when taking a pal from New Zealand to a pantomime, it’s...
Read MorePosted by Helen Nugent | Dec 13, 2024 | Arts, Theatre
Bafflement is an underused word. But when taking a pal from New Zealand to a pantomime, it’s...
Read MorePosted by Chris Wallis | Dec 11, 2024 | Archives
As a veteran of some 30 pantos I never thought I’d say this, but how lovely it is to be back in panto land. It’s almost like everything is back to normal. A packed house on the Aladdin press night at Oldham Coliseum...
Read MorePosted by Andy Murray | Dec 9, 2024 | Archives
Ask anyone in York what makes their Theatre Royal pantomimes so special and they’ll sum it up in two words: Berwick Kaler. The long-standing Dame/writer/director/secret weapon/magic ingredient had become the heart and soul...
Read MorePosted by Chris Wallis | Dec 9, 2024 | Archives
Director Chris Lawson’s first panto at Oldham Coliseum is a belter. And it has the best pantomime cow I have ever seen, in any pantomime, anywhere. There are other firsts here, too. Richard J Fletcher gives up his usual Idle...
Read MorePosted by Chris Wallis | Nov 14, 2024 | Archives
The Oldham panto is a great tradition, stretching back to the days of Kenneth Alan Taylor and beyond. As a writer and a Dame, Taylor is a pantomime legend and wrote his first panto (Cinderella) for Oldham Coliseum in the early...
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