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Pantos on parade! From Beauty And The Beast to Pinocchio, our critics reveal their pick of the pantomimes
The Daily Mail critics run the rule over the pick of this festive season's pantomime heavy hitters, from Beauty and the Beast to Home Alone.
Kate (Allie Dart) is oblivious to the fact that her husband Peter (Jack North) is screamingly gay, while their teenage son Buzz (Steph Asamoah) bullies eight-year-old Kevin (Elliott Evans, suitably boyish), who is himself about to come out - just as the family are leaving for Christmas in Paris. One can’t fault the ambition of the writers and director Alex Jackson in trying to recreate some of the film’s cartoonish violence as the left-behind Kevin thwarts two burglars, but it doesn’t work on the studio’s tiny stage — although Louie Whitemore’s set is a delight. The creatives (and director Omar F. Okai) have simplified the original text, as we see the lonely carpenter Geppetto (Tok Morakinyo) create Pinocchio (the splendid Dylan Collymore), and then how the little wooden boy is tempted by the Sly Fox (Rushand Chambers) and Miss Kat (Jhanaica Van Mook).
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