We went to the panto! Sorry but it’s 24 hours later and I’m still on a high.
For mini monkey’s birthday treat we went to The Everyman Rock ‘n’ Roll Panto. There was no way we were missing out and as a family of bloody showoffs, panto is made for us. We all dressed up, I wore all the glitter, twirly light up things were purchased.
It’s the tale of the Little Mermaid but this would twist Walt Disney’s mouse ears. There’s everything you want true love, an evil villain, a cracking dame, terrible puns, double entendres, audience participation (the beloved loved a super soaker to the crotch – cheers Pearl) and all the boo hissing you can handle. In addition, you get cracking songs and if your children are of a certain age if you belt them out with abandon they die of embarrassment – brilliant!
The cast are fantastic, the kids loved it, the audience loved. They sang, we sang, they danced, we danced, they laughed, we laughed. It was 2 hours 20 minutes of joy, fizzy and Christmas spirit. It’s running to 20 January 2018, I’m going again. I may take my own glitter cannon.