Daft jokes, silly songs, and plenty of audience participation are the order of the day in this rambunctious panto production.
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If the title hadn’t already given it away, Dickens this ain’t – but there is an odd sort of Christmas spirit in this rude and reworked version of his festive tale.
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Panto needs a glorious buzz of energy, dance, music, and comedy – and this year’s outing at Norwich Theatre Royal delivers them all.
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We live in times where it is hard to know what to believe, where politicians tell us black is white and friends reveal unexpected eccentricities in social media posts.
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The classic murder mystery board game is back for another stage adaptation, where all is not as it seems and danger lurks around every corner.
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I had fun. At least that’s the start of the review that Lucy McCormick dictates towards the end of her frenzied and unpredictable one woman cabaret variety spoken word alt drag act show.
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It launched as a sitcom more than 30 years ago, but now Drop The Dead Donkey is back as a stage show.
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Donkeeeey! The ass is back, and so are Shrek and Princess Fiona in this fun family musical based on the 2001 film that proved it’s not easy being green.
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The first four seasons of the hugely popular Netflix 80s science fiction horror are ruthlessly parodied in this joyous pastiche musical.
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The February instalment of this regular comedy night at Norwich’s The Garage saw a line up of three white men – but was more diverse than it at first appeared.
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If you think chiropody, ration books, and a real lady of a pig sounds like an unlikely combination for a winning musical, you clearly haven’t seen Betty Blue Eyes.
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Karl Minns’ Norwich single mum alter ego’s winter outing is becoming a tradition as familiar as Old Year’s Night – and remains a sparkling piece of self-effacing fun.
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Panto sometimes gets a bad rap – at best silly stories for kids, at worst a lazy cash cow for theatres and fading celebs. But done well it can bring together comedy, music, dance, in a single entertaining package.
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Get ready to get sequinned out: Norwich Theatre’s panto is a riot of glittering costumes, frenetic dance routines, anthemic songs, and smart and silly humour.
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There’s a painting by African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner of the moment Mary is told by archangel Gabriel that she is pregnant with the son of God.
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