Traditional can often mean stale but Paul Hendy knows panto too well for that. His latest, immaculately well-targeted pantomime for the Marlowe is a fresh and energetic affair.
The trad bits include some magnificently silly costumes, lots of flying, a smashing crocodile, plenty of shouting out and a good old singsong. But this Peter Pan also includes ‘synchronised swimming’ in lieu of a slosh scene, some high camp mermaids and, a Hendy invention, the “spurious comedy routine”, a pun sequence based on the items in a wheelbarrow …
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