Jackie Montague
Published:
5:55 PM December 21, 2020
The Snow Queen is the New Wolsey Theatre s rock n roll panto for 2020. It s playing until December 24 for families at home and for limited audiences in the theatre
- Credit: Mike Kwasniak
Snow Queen, Rock’n’Roll Panto, New Wolsey Theatre, until December 24
It’s been a long wait, a little touch and go at times, but the New Wolsey’s rock’n’roll panto is here and is bringing a touch of normality to Christmas 2020.
“It’s like being at a masked bandits convention” says Dame Seigfried Smorgasbord and she’s not wrong. Socially distanced we may be, but all it takes is a British Panto Dame tottering across a stage to “My Corona,” pushing a shopping trolley teeming with visual gags about fish and suddenly we are given a sense of certainty that is thankfully, for once, not so “unprecedented”.
“There are set pieces which we play straight to camera which bring us straight into people’s living rooms.”
Lucy reveals that during the first half there are moments when props are gathered from people’s homes to be used in the second half of the evening. “There are pre-show videos recorded by previous dames which make it pretty clear what will be needed during the course of the show.”
The pair said that the cast of five means that the show is more intimate this year but the action has been boosted by locally filmed videos which have been dropped into the narrative to give the show extra sparkle.
“There are set pieces which we play straight to camera which bring us straight into people’s living rooms.”
Lucy reveals that during the first half there are moments when props are gathered from people’s homes to be used in the second half of the evening. “There are pre-show videos recorded by previous dames which make it pretty clear what will be needed during the course of the show.”
The pair said that the cast of five means that the show is more intimate this year but the action has been boosted by locally filmed videos which have been dropped into the narrative to give the show extra sparkle.