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Rapunzel

★★★

Theatre Peckham

RAPUNZEL at Theatre Peckham ★★★ “As a vehicle for the youth theatre to show their chops, Rapunzel is a very charming production” Theatre Peckham sits just a stone’s throw from the thoroughfare of Rye Lane, with its bustling array of salt fish sellers, street-preachers and salon owners. Their Christmas show

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Mother Goose

★★★★

Cambridge Arts Theatre

MOTHER GOOSE at the Cambridge Arts Theatre ★★★★ “this well-produced, entertaining and colourful show is perfect for anyone of any age to start engaging in live theatre” Cambridge’s favourite dame (Matt Crosby) returns to the annual pantomime, directed by Michael Gattrell, for festive fun in an outlandish display of costumes

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Solstice

★★★★

Battersea Arts Centre

SOLSTICE at Battersea Arts Centre ★★★★ “Solstice may be a small show, but it has a large heart” Wild Rumpus’ show Solstice, now running at the Battersea Arts Centre, is an easy winner if you are looking for a show for young children this holiday season. It’s just big enough

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Potted Panto

★★★★★

Wilton’s Music Hall

POTTED PANTO at Wilton’s Music Hall ★★★★★ “Basically, you’ve just got to see it to believe it.” Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner (thereinafter referred to as Dan and Jeff) take on the task of presenting six-and-a-half popular pantomimes in the space of eighty minutes. They’ve been doing it for some

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Aladdin

★★★★

Hackney Empire

ALADDIN at the Hackney Empire ★★★★ “Clive Rowe is truly the grand dame of panto dames” Stuff Shakespeare, Pantomime is probably my favourite theatrical tradition. There are not many other settings where you can have babies, grandparents, and long-suffering assorted other relatives entertained for a couple of hours by good

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A Sherlock Carol

★★★★

Marylebone Theatre

A SHERLOCK CAROL at the Marylebone Theatre ★★★★ “one of the cleverest and most entertaining of the current festive productions” Sherlock Holmes was just thirty-seven years old when he was reported to have died in the Reichenbach Falls in 1891; having fallen to his death in a struggle with the

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Ikaria

Ikaria

★★★★

Park Theatre

IKARIA at the Park Theatre ★★★★ “The performances are strong, with excellent chemistry and range” Ikaria is both the name of an idyllic Greek island, and the deeply bleak student halls where this play takes place. This dark juxtaposition is indicative of a script filled with ironic humour, but also

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A Woman Walks Into a Bank

★★★★★

Theatre503

A WOMAN WALKS INTO A BANK at Theatre503 ★★★★★ “there’s lots of laughs. In a doleful, what-can-you-expect-this-is-Russia kind of way” Roxy Cook’s A Woman Walks Into A Bank is a thoroughly delightful—yet pointed, in the way that Gogol’s Dead Souls is pointed—portrait of a corrupt and brutal society drunk on

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A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol

★★★★★

The Old Vic

A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the The Old Vic ★★★★★ “The quality and theatricality of this production is unparalleled” Few pieces of literature have had such a profound impact on how we think of Christmas today as Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Has the festive season truly begun unless you’ve read

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Lay Down Your Burdens

★★★

Barbican

LAY DOWN YOUR BURDENS at the Barbican ★★★ “It was a genuinely mixed experience, and sometimes that is refreshing in its own way.” Billed as a piece of ‘radically tender dance theatre’ Lay Down Your Burdens is a brave, if peculiar, piece of immersive theatre. We are welcomed to a

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