After a few years doing slightly random titles (‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, ‘Pantoland’), the Palladium’s annual megapanto returns with a classic of the genre as it tackles ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
Oh yes it is: London panto season returns for 2022, with familiar faces, familiar stories, and yet somehow holding on to a constant sense of anarchic family fun. There are plenty of punters who never set foot in a theatre throughout the rest of the year who make an exception for pantomimes. From the megascale London Palladium show with its filthy figurehead Julian Clary, to Clive Rowe’s brilliant panto purism at the Hackney Empire, London is a city that takes pantomime seriously. Even if the idea of seasonal frivolity fills you with dread, there’s a panto out there for you.
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