pantomime
Review – Scooby Panto and the Night of the Nutcracker! In 2D!
✭✭✭✩✩ Brazenly hazy:
Gosh, golly and crypes, Santa Claus has been kidnapped and not only have his dastardly kidnappers killed Scrappy Doo, but they have cancelled Christmas too!
Review – Beauty and the Beast
★★★★☆ Tremendous traditional entertainment
Bringing Christmas cheer to the month of November, Saughtonhall Drama Group’s Beauty and The Beast has just about everything you could wish for in a traditional pantomime.
LCT in hunt for panto director
Leith Community Theatre is looking for a volunteer director for its 2013 pantomime, which is scheduled to run 12 to 19 December.
Review – Aladdin
You are never far away from a song and a dance up at the Church Hill Theatre, where Edinburgh People’s Theatre have added a few good local twists to a recent Joe Graham script of Aladdin.
Review – Leitherella
Fun and frivolous – if not exactly fleeting – Leitherella is a community pantomime with real heart.
First view – Puss In Boots
Picture Special from the Brunton Panto
The Brunton has a new director and writer for its pantomime this year with Tim Licata of local comedy troupe Plutôt la Vie taking over at the helm and Philip Meeks on writing duties. Here are a few pics to whet your appetite.
Æ Review – Humpty Dumpty
* * * Church Hill Theatre By Thom Dibdin Plenty of bad yolks and lots of scrambled song lyrics make for some cracking good entertainment in the Edinburgh People’s Theatre pantomime version of Humpty Dumpty up at the Church Hill Theatre. Not to mention of flock of young chickens from the Mandy Black School of […]
Æ Blog – Interview with the Gerard Kelly
Scottish actor Gerard Kelly dies in London By Thom Dibdin Very sad to hear that Gerard Kelly has died of a brain aneurysm, at the age 51. He was a consummate panto-pal in his performances in the Glasgow King’s pantomimes, where I was privileged to see him on several occasions. Watching him work an audience, […]
Pantomime Review – Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves
★★★★☆ Fun:
All the fun of a traditional Scottish panto is to be had up at the Church Hill Theatre this week, as Edinburgh People’s Theatre take on David Swan’s version of Ali Baba – and hit the mark just about spot on.
Pantomime Review – Robinson Crusoe and the Caribbean Pirates
King’s Theatre: Sun 29 Nov 2009 – Sun 17 Jan 2010 Review by Thom Dibdin. Feisty and energetic, Paul Elliott’s take on Crusoe sets out from Edinburgh in a well-conceived and delivered local plot. Grant Stott’s villainous Pirate Blackheart is a local radio DJ in mid-life crisis. Jo Freer’s goodie is a magical mermaid – […]
