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Aganeza Scrooge--Tron, Glasgow

The pantosphere is decking the halls and rocking around their Christmas trees. Well everywhere except one place: Dickensian Street, home of the frightful Aganeza Scrooge, the scariest skinflint in the pantosphere.  A woman so tight with money she makes Fifers look generous. Read more …

And Aganeza HATES Christmas! She hates those festive jumpers that her employee Bobby Scratchit keeps wearing; hates that Whiny Tim who walks around everywhere with a croquet stick; and don't even get her started on those ghosts of panto past, present and future that have decided to keep her awake all through the night!  A girl has got to get her sleep.

Aganeza is on a quest to end Christmas! It's sooooo.....bah humbug.

This year's Tron panto is an all-female spin on Charles Dickens' classic tale A Christmas Carol. A wildly funny, family show that will have you singing in the aisles, dancing in your seats and skipping home just like Tiny Tim.


The critical consensus

McKnight’s script echoes the sharp wit of his Random Accomplice productions, and as the main character, he keeps the show’s pace fast and the humour intelligent, revisiting old school slapstick but finding new ways to play with the traditional tricks.

Gareth K Vile, The Stage, 05/12/2012

Like the little girl with the little curl, when this show is good it is very, very good.

****(*)Mary Brennan, The Herald, 06/12/2012

McKnight’s show is a tremendous romp, with as high a quotient of panto fun as any Christmas entertainment around.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, 06/12/2012

The tongue-twisters, corny jokes and sweet-throwing are about as far from Dickens as you can get, yet so brilliantly does McKnight fuse the contradictory strands – bittersweet social commentary and pugnacious panto – that by the end, when Aganeza finally sees the error of her ways, he strikes a chord of genuinely warming Christmas cheer.

****(*)Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 10/12/2012

Beneath a surface which is both traditionally knockabout and expertly crafted, the sense of tension between the haves and have-nots of Dickens’ era is brought vividly up to date.

****(*)David Pollock, The Independent, 10/12/2012

There’s so much to love about the show – from Kenny Miller’s gorgeous monochrome designs to Sally Reid as Tiny Tim and her running joke about polio – that you may not notice how faithful McKnight is to A Christmas Carol. What you certainly do notice, though, is how moving is Aganeza’s redemption and how joyous the final chorus of ‘All I Want for Christmas’.

****(*)Francis McLachlan, The List, 11/12/2012

McKnight is leading a brilliant cast...The show is cleverly pitched, as Tron pantos have to be, to entertain adults and children alike.

Mark Brown, Scottish Stage, 17/12/2012

Where and when?

Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Friday November 30, 2012, until Saturday January 5, 2013. More info: www.tron.co.uk

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