Dear Your Worship
As a one-man pantomime swan act, I implore you to settle this question once and for all. Are pantomime swans required to conform to the same Equity regulations as pantomime horses? I mean, does there have to be one small actor in the front and another one in the back? I enclose a publicity shot of me in my one-man-operated swan costume, described by
Stage magazine as “more swan-like than the real thing”. However thanks to intense union pressure, I now find myself effectively blacklisted in the pantomime swan community.
Melvin Twollet, Hartlepool
THE VERDICT:
I am sorry to hear of your current employment difficulties, but as a matter of health and safety, Equity rule 2177114b specifies plainly that there should