Panto Time Again

One of the things I do miss, out here in the wilds of the Dutch countryside, is the traditional British Panto. It sounds as though Stephen Fry’s adaptation of Cinderella, now on at the Old Vic, is a real Christmas Cracker…

 

That review, in today’s Observer, also covers a new production of David Edgar’s Nicholas Nickleby, which was a landmark 9-hour(!) stage production back in 1980. By coincidence, BBC Four has just started rebroadcasting the film of the original stage show, with Roger Rees as Nicholas, the amazing David Threlfall as Smike and the late, great Edward Petherbridge as Newman Noggs. Absolutely stunning.