Admittedly I am a bit of a bah humbug when it comes to the British Christmas tradition of a panto visit - I try it every couple of years and have experienced by now various formats (pub theatre, adult and drag versions included). I do enjoy the festive cheer everyone else experiences around me but … Continue reading Finally a panto for the bah humbugs – Peter Pan at the Greenwich Theatre
Heading to a drag panto is almost a logical action between Christmas and New Year celebration, embracing both glam, silliness and good spirits: Everyone can be in drag, everyone can be a panto dame, non-binary and cis performers alike - drag is no longer a boys-only club. And everyone is welcome who can embrace smutty scurrilous jokes adult (age guidance 16+) about … Continue reading Forgive your stylist – Sleeping Beauty as a West End drag panto at the Harold Pinter Theatre
On arrival from the vaults of its car park, the massive multilevel foyer of the Fairfield Halls in London's Borough Of Culture 2023 Croydon is breathtakingly busy. People in Christmas hats and jumpers take family pictures on almost every corner, in front of fairy light curtains, on stairs and the funky Christmas trees crowned with disco balls, … Continue reading Croydon is London’s Borough Of Culture 2023: Aladdin at Fairfield Halls
When her Evil Stepmother does not allow her a mobile phone and she feels she is missing out, 21 year old Ella starts speaking in emojis and hashtags. Luckily the Fairy Matchmaker understands her pain and because we are in an adult panto it does not take long for Ella to admit that has signed … Continue reading An Adult Panto – Tinderella at the Canal Café Theatre at the Regent’s Canal in London
Sadie takes the Stage 