Dick Whittington

Synopsis

Dig out your platforms, bouffant your hair, Swing your bellbottoms, Dick must be Lord Mayor! The Beat is throbbing, the drums are drumming, Hold on tight, Dick Whittington is coming!!!!!!!! The rock ?n' roll panto returns this November with another large slice of Christmas pudding-sized fun and frolics. Husband and wife team Sarah Nixon and Mark Chatterton have done it again and written a unique panto you can shake, rattle and roll in the aisles to as you follow Dick and his cat set off for the ancient city paved with gold. The rock ?n' roll panto is always a great night out for all the whole family. With music, dancing and lots of cheeky laughs there's something for everyone.

Our Review:

8 December 2012

For several years, the Oxford Playhouse Pantomime has been a staple Christmas treat for three generations of the Taylor family. This year’s outing to see Peter Duncan’s Dick Whittington has put a very glittery and joyful festive bauble on the top of this year’s tree: full of humour, song and dance, and livened up by moments of heart-in-mouth tension.

This Playhouse production doesn’t have to create a story around a soap star or superannuated pop singer; rather the creative team let the story, the traditions of panto and the highly skilled and entertaining performers come together to put on an excellent show.

Three performers really stood out this year. This year’s Dame - Doris Doughnut - is played with enormous gusto by Leon Craig; she gets down amongst the audience (those of you with expensive dry cleaning habits should probably avoid the front seats), and brings the show to life. Reuben Kaye is clearly having the time of his life as a thoroughly evil King Rat, sn...

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