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Kat B as Uncle Vincent the Cat in Dick Whittington. Photograph: Manuel Vazquez/The Guardian
Kat B as Uncle Vincent the Cat in Dick Whittington. Photograph: Manuel Vazquez/The Guardian
After a tough year for theatre, our chief critic celebrates the joy of the Christmas show, while five festive performers reveal how it feels to be waiting in the wings
Sat 12 Dec 2020 05.00 EST
Remember your first ever Christmas show â its sparkle and magic, its tinsel and thrall? I watched my first pantomime in 1978, though I couldnât have named it as such. I was six, and still acclimatising to the shock of leaving sun-soaked Lahore to migrate to the greyest of London winters. I was led into the school hall where I sat, legs folded, with no friends and no word of English. I remember the curtain opening to a hirsute dame playing a guitar, and a half-hearted pantomime horse with elbows and heads poking out of its sides. An explosion of boos, whoops and shrieks. Classmates shouting, teachers
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