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It's derriere you! A French critic gives her take on three madcap pantos

by Laura Cappelle

Do you have to be British to get panto? We sent a French critic to three shows full of cross-dressing dames and adults playing cows. Will she ever forget the experience? Oh no she won't! Standing in the audience of the Southwark Playhouse's Potted Panto, I am in Cinderella's carriage, waving imaginary reins furiously with two dozen strangers. We all swerve to avoid a giant spider on a stick, but the water guns reach …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 2:36am on December 18, 2019