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This year’s Jack and the Beanstalk at New Wimbledon Theatre delivers everything a pantomime should: laughter, spectacle, and a sense of festive nostalgia. With standout performances, dazzling set ...
It’s official… Pantomime season has arrived (oh yes it has!), with Oswald’s Players’ Jack and the Beanstalk kicking off the festive fun with a distinctly Durham-Student twist on the ever-adored story.
It’s been a busy time for the region’s theatre’s and playhouses, here we review the 2024 season’s Christmas shows and pantomimes – part one. Compiled by Yvette Huddleston.
Written and directed by Dan Schumann, Jack and the Beanstalk provided its audiences with energy, colour, wit and magic – and I mean real magic, of which more later. Set in Sohamville, the story ...
Pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk Beacon Arts Centre, Greenock Mary Brennan (12 - 13/12/2024) four stars Fe-fi-fo- FUN ! and lots and lots of it. Daft puns. Timely farts.
New Wimbledon Theatre 7 December 2024 – 5 January 2025 Jack and the Beanstalk New Wimbledon Theatre Tickets Author Chris Omaweng Chris has been reviewing for LondonTheatre1 since 2014.
The St Martin Square theatre’s Jack and the Beanstalk opened to the public on Friday night, delivering a heavy dose of glitter, gags and giants. The Towngate Theatre was packed on Friday evening ...
Another flaw with Jack and the Beanstalk is that it is far too long. It runs at around 2 hours 30 mins with interval and considering there is little to no plot development this is excessive.
No pantomime is complete, of course, without its Dame, and here we have the glorious Gertrude (Andy Cryer), Jack’s mother and – well that would be to give away some of the plot and you are surely owed ...
Jack and the Beanstalk revisited The way the former prime minister left the scene serves as a reminder of Tonatuni (tailorbird), who gathered all the ingredients to make a cake and consumed it all ...