SLEEPING Beauty, the 2024 Wiltshire Creative pantomime at Salisbury Playhouse, has received three nominations for the Pantomime Awards 2025. The critically-acclaimed show (which had a five-star review in The Stage) has been nominated for Best Pantomime (500-900 seat venues) at the annual awards hosted by The UK Pantomime Association, with Katie Lias also receiving nods…
WHEN the Sturminster Newton Amateur Dramatic Society, affectionately known as SNADS, takes on the ever-popular pantomime Cinderella you can expect local jokes and references woven into the story of the abused step sister and her meeting with the prince. The SNADS pantomime is rightly famous for its music, dancing, singing and storytelling – something so…
SHAFTESBURY Arts Centre’s music and drama group will be stepping out on the yellow brick road for this year’s pantomime, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. at the Bell Street venue from 23rd January to 1st February. Written by Nigel Holmes and directed by Sophia Ruel, the show follows the original book by L Frank Baum,…
SHAFTESBURY Arts Centre’s music and drama group will be stepping out on the yellow brick road for this year’s pantomime, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. at the Bell Street venue from 23rd January to 1st February. Written by Nigel Holmes and directed by Sophia Ruel, the show follows the original book by L Frank Baum,…
CHRISTMAS isn’t a time when we want to think about politics and pinched purses, but if you live in the Yeovil catchment and one of your favourite festive treats has been a visit to the Octagon pantomime (moved last year to Westlands), you won’t have missed the fact that the Arts Council part funded plans…
CINDERELLA is the most popular of pantomimes, but this season the only professional production in the south west is at Exeter’s Northcott Theatre, where Le Navet Bete (that’s Daft Turnip in translation) has taken the story and shaken it up a bit, to the delight of children, parents, grandparents and other panto lovers. The three…
ONE of the most popular fairy tale pantomimes is the 2024 choice at Salisbury Playhouse, where Lottie Mae O’Kill plays the title role in Sleeping Beauty, running from 4th December to 12th January. Ryan McBryde returns to Salisbury Playhouse to direct the show, once again written by Plested, Brown and Wilsher, with Claudia Kariuki as…
THE members of MADS, aka Mere Amateur Dramatic Society, and their audiences, will be paying tribute to the memory to Eric Kincaid when they perform Alice in Blunderland at the Lecture Hall from 28th to 30th November. They have chosen Eric’s own pantomime, written with his friend Chris Wood and first performed in 2007. Eric,…
NOVEMBER is here and the pantomime season is approaching fast. Theatres and arts centres around the country have announced their shows and their stars, hoping to ensure the bums-on-seats that ensure their financial viability for the rest of the year. Pantomime is a peculiarly British institution, rich in tradition and full of expectation for younger…
EMMA Norman’s introduction to live theatre was pantomime in her home town, at Blackpool’s Grand Theatre. The magic and colour of that show caught her imagination. “It made me want to do this,” said this year’s Wicked Queen in Bath Theatre Royal’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. “It is the catalyst for so many…