Tag: Janet Bird

Especially at this time of year, you can’t beat a panto. The beauty of this kind of theatre is that you always know what you’re going to get: tongue-in-cheek jokes, slapstick humour, outlandish costumes… and of course, the token “man in drag”. There is an element of the formulaic about pantomimes - something familiar, something comforting, something inherently festive. However, this particular show was different. Yes, it still had all the hallmarks one comes to expect from a panto - but in this case, it had something unique. Over the years, we’ve all seen hundreds of pantomimic retellings of classic stories like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, with only small deviations from the main story we all know and love. But Rock ’n’ Roll Rapunzel was a version of the fairytale as we ...