Kristine Cagney Kringle and her toy workshop are gearing up for the biggest, bestest festive season yet. However, there’s a magic mirror just waiting to be dropped, and once it is, Christmas will be gone FOREVER! Read more …
Join us on the ultimate quest to save the pantosphere from the evil Snaw Queen and her desire to keep Weegietown Christmas-free and forever cold and miserable. Encountering Aberdeen-like temperatures, Kristine, Kelvie (the Kelvingrove Elfie) and Olive (you know, the other reindeer) battle the elements to save Rudolph from the evil queen's clutches.
Lock up your weans 'cause the maddest, meanest, miserliest witch of them all is running wild in the pantosphere. Will the Snaw Queen ever thaw? Or sing haw-de-baw? Will we meet her maw? There’s only one way to find out.
A treat from start to finish.
Anything goes, especially Hans Christian Andersen’s original story, in Johnny McKnight’s hyperactive festive romp.
If you are ready to let go any resistance, the Snaw Queen is an easily enjoyable festive experience. And we all deserve a good laugh and a cathartic end-of-year clear-out.
Take your children to this panto and get your share of festive glitter!
A riot for the senses and a welcome relief from this grey old world we live in.
No one does pop culture and political barbs alike within Christmas shows with such aplomb as McKnight, and even if there's a slight identity crisis in the first half, with too much cutesiness, rendering the satirical moments a touch jarring, he 'Claus' it back long before the inevitable Mariah Carey singalong.
There’s plenty of razor-sharp dialogue, loads of pound-shop dazzle in Kenny Miller’s design, and a truly brilliant comic musical sequence set in the Glasgow Subway.
Imagine Hans Christian Andersen, John Waters and a young Pedro Almódovar getting together for Christmas and you have some measure of the lurid delights of this year’s Tron panto.
Yet another Christmas hit for the talented McKnight and chums, even if, like the Tron’s postmodern pantos of yore, it seems better suited to adults than younger children.
Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday November 29, 2016, until Saturday January 7, 2017. More info: www.tron.co.uk
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