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'Humour is our biggest cultural export': behind the scenes at a groundbreaking Jewish panto

by Deborah Linton

A new production in north London is bringing the rhythms of Jewish storytelling, humour and music to the seasonal theatrical staple What else would you call "Britain's first professional Jewish pantomime" but Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Pig? And where else would you set it but north London, at Hanukah? At the JW3 centre in London " an arts and community venue for "the Jewish, Jew-ish and Jew curious", according t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 7:02am on December 5, 2023