Jack and the Beanstalk

Last year’s inaugural King’s Head Panto was a nice new addition to London’s festive ‘scene’, and clearly went well enough that it’s back for more. It’s once again masterminded by Andrew Pollard – formerly of the Greenwich panto – who will write and direct, and it will again have a sprinkling of adults-only performances throughout the run with guesting cabaret stars (for the love of god check the schedule before booking, although they’rer relatively few in number and only in the evening). It is, as you’d expect, a locally-set spin on the traditional Jack and the Beanstalk story, with hero Jack Trott on a quest to save his mother’s Udder Street dairy farm from the giant.