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Review: ODYSSEY: A HEROIC PANTOMIME, Jermyn Street Theatre

Five opera singers are holding out for a hero

The House Of Bernarda Alba review: Five sisters stuck in a sad (and sweary) house with a very forbidding mother, writes PATRICK MARMION

PATRICK MARMION: This is not a play that ends well for anyone. Great as it is, the conclusion is as shocking as the barbarous execution of its author. Do not expect winter cheer

Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime: Greece is the word in this delightful pint-sized panto

Thought you’d seen every possible iteration of pantomime that British theatre has to offer? Well, you were myth-taken. If that pun made you groan – with delight – then Charles Court Opera’s boutique panto take on Homer is the one for you this Christmas. Yes, there’s an unmistakable whiff of the classics students’ jolly end-of-term skit, with some highbrow Hellenic humour, but that’s firmly balanced with pop culture gags, fart jokes, smutty innuendo and heavenly singing.

Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime at Jermyn Street Theatre

Even the antagonist was treated with affection: I didn’t know there was such a thing as booing with love, but I’ve discovered it here.

Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime, Charles Court Opera, Jermyn Street Theatre review – topsy-turvy Homer