Photo credit Tommy Ga Ken WanThe panto with the Eggs-Factor brings you heroes and villains, booing and cheering, slapstick, silliness and sing-along fun aplenty. Read more …
Book your seats in Perth’s beautiful, historic theatre for one of the very best traditional family pantomimes and start looking forward to a cracking Christmas outing for the whole family.
This is fast-flowing and loud and the young and young-at-heart respond in kind - always the barometer of success.
Hunter is ably assisted by both the young cast around him and the outfits that Jennifer Melville conjures for him. Rachel O’Riordan, whose arrival in Perth as director last year has galvanised the theatre, directs with wit and energy.
There’s no shortage of traditional panto routines – including egg-citing egg jokes – and the audience participation goes with a swing; and if the mood is a little less convivial than it might be, that’s because we see too much of the villain, and not enough of the unambiguous forces of sweetness and light, that finally defeat him.
Perth Theatre, Perth from Friday December 7, 2012, until Saturday January 5, 2013. More info: www.horsecross.co.uk
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