The Scottish Event Campus has announced the city’s much-loved pair, The Krankies, will return to the Armadillo to star alongside funny men Gavin Mitchell, Jonathan Watson, Keith Jack and actress and singer Francis Thorburn in Cinderella. Read more …
Up until The Krankies take to the stage at the end of the show, this Cinderella is a missed opportunity.
This year’s Qdos Cinderella at the SEC Armadillo, which has possibly the most star-studded cast in the whole Scottish pantosphere but somehow delivers a slightly muted and chilly evening of fun.
The bones of the Grimm fairy tale are present and correct in Alan McHugh and Jonathan Kiley’s script, even if the narrative has to fight for survival in amongst all the anarchic capering.
If the SEC panto deserves top billing in Scotland this Christmas, that is down, first-and-foremost, to the still high-energy antics of Wee Jimmy Krankie.
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