Poor Ella, her cruel stepmother makes her work day and night. She dreams of dancing with a handsome prince, but the infamous ugly sisters are inescapable, she has nothing to wear, her fairy godmother has gone Christmas shopping and she is running out of time…! Read more …
Chock full of songs, laughter, magic and mischief, this enchanting tale is brought to glittering life by macrobert's legendary panto team. Don't miss Johnny McKnight's hilarious take on the most popular pantomime of them all.
From the opening scene, where the learner fairies – played by local youngsters – are given the task of making Ella's dream of romance come true through to her happy ending with a Prince who is totally in step with her Dirty Dancing footwork, this production (updated by McKnight and directed by Julie Brown) doesn't miss any of the inbuilt tricks.
This panto was never likely to fail; and in the end, it’s a rough-and-ready but roaring popular success.
A big, knowing production that, thanks to composer Alan Penman and designer Karen Tennent, draws in all the essential contemporary and local cultural references from Gangnam to Dirty Dancing.
Johnny McKnight’s sparkling Christmas offering at macrobert may be missing the man himself, but it launches straight into the postmodern Pantosphere setting now familiar to local audiences.
It is not quite as technically slick as it should be but there’s plenty of heart, and the singing and dancing to a selection of familiar hits is as energetic as you could wish.
macrobert, Stirling from Wednesday November 28, 2012, until Monday December 31, 2012. More info: www.macrobert.org
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