Mother Goose returns to the King’s Theatre and it's one golden egg of a show. Staged by the same team behind the theatre's recent record-breaking pantomimes, Mother Goose is well worth a gander! Read more …
This Christmas join Mother Goose and Priscilla, the Goose that lays the golden eggs, on a flight of fantasy in an unmissable pantomime adventure.
This year’s action-packed production promises another must-see King’s Theatre pantomime featuring an abundance of comedy, fabulous sets, outrageous costumes…together with a few surprises! You won't want to miss the only pantomime in Edinburgh with true eggs-factor this Christmas.
It's a double act welcomed by loyal audiences and newcomers, and when there are topical side-swipes and local references, such as Edinburgh's trams, the comedy ticks the right boxes.
Big city panto with all the gizmos, but lacking a truly human heart.
While you couldn’t really say the show pulls out all the stops, it remains feel- good family fare, sure to send punters off home into the night with smiles on their faces.
This show is fun for all the family and definitely worth a visit. In fact, if you want incomprehensible rap songs about low budget evil deeds across the Lothians and Fife, moral lessons about vanity and kindness, or tips on how to move like Jagger, we’d go as far as to say this is the only place for you this Christmas.
It's difficult to imagine a panto with fewer pretensions to high art than the annual Christmas show at the Edinburgh King’s. Big, bright, brief, and brash, without a trace of poetry, it aims to amuse, in classic variety style.
With a pantomime that never fails to let you down, props go to writers Paul Elliot and Stewart as they prove themselves a dab hand at not only contemporary pantomime writing but in capturing the true magic of Christmas.
It has to be said that the song and dance numbers grow tiresome after the first few (it opens, inevitably, with ‘Gangnam Style’), but the main trio’s corpsing and ad-libbing throughout is really infectious, making for an energetic, familial atmosphere.
This annual night of fun that is all topical trams and twitter, fireworks and flying, rhyming and rocking, Cancan and corpsing, provides the perfect Xmas party for all ages as the evening is ended with everyone ‘Rockin all over the world’.
King's Theatre, Edinburgh from Saturday December 1, 2012, until Sunday January 20, 2013. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/kings
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