What do you want from your pantos?
If it’s lots of belly laughs, audience participation, glittering costumes and big musical numbers that the kids will love, then Jack and the Beanstalk has it all.
Brave and handsome Jack, played by Will Breckin, must defeat the gruesome Giant to save his true love - and help save his broke family from a life of destitution.
Star of the show John Altman - aka ‘nasty’ Nick Cotton, the dastardly Eastender - plays a fantastic villain Fleshcreep; my three-year-old hid behind her giant foam hand when he first appeared but was soon booing with the best of them.
Scott Gallagher steals the show as Jack’s brother Simple Simon.
He’s a comic genius, and his silliness and sheer energy had us all in stitches.
Danny Posthill gives some great one-liners as the comical Dame ‘Dolly’ Durden.
Rosalinde, played by the radiant Hannah Marie Kilminster, is a beautiful songbird; everything a true princess should be.
And Shelley Anne Rivers is gorgeous as the good Fairy Vegetable.
The Giant, which does indeed live up to its name, is a feat of engineering and quite a sight to behold.
Some energetic dance numbers from Thornton Academy of Performing Arts had us all up shaking our thing by the end.
This is a great way to spend a fun-packed afternoon with the family; the kids will no doubt be talking about it for months to come.
Thoroughly recommended.
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