Robin Hood is not one of the ‘big five’, and for good reasons. Usually combined with the story of The Babes in the Wood as it is here, the plot is complicated, there is nowhere to put the Dame or her idle son, there are too many...
Read MorePerhaps not thinking of panto at the time, Orson Welles once quotably opined: “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” Nonetheless, his after-dinner aphorism fits the peculiarly British form of seasonal theatre like a...
Read More“Fancy driving to Lancaster to see an outdoor performance in the park?” came the request from Northern Soul a couple of months ago. With a pinch of the Dunkirk spirit I said “yes”, well aware that my...
Read MoreIf you’re putting on a big, family-friendly theatre production at this time of year, essentially you’re faced with two options. You can go for a full-on, traditional “It’s behind you!” panto, or else you can...
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