Aladdin
From: Saturday, 28th November 2009
To: Saturday, 9 January 2010
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Synopsis
The Pantomime story of Aladdin and the magic lamp. Widow Twankey, her no-good son Wishee Washee and the Chinese laundry usually provide the slapstick.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 4 December 2009
Clive Rowe’s pantomime dame is one of the wonders of the age and his sixth appearance at the Hackney Empire, in a really beautiful Aladdin directed by Susie McKenna, does not disappoint.
His Widow Twankey comes out of the Peking laundry in the Eastern province of Ha Ka Ney in a washing-line hat and glamorous housecoat and is soon schmoozing “Luke” from the front stalls on a “Slow Boat to China”. Rowe fills the theatre with his voice, charm and personality, but only prospers because of the rigour and discipline around him.
All the elements of the traditional story are new-minted but in the right place: there is stylish slapstick in the laundry (Matt Dempsey’s cute if slightly over-age Wishee Washee is put through the wringer and tumble-dried), a singing camel, a flying dragon to transport us to the deserts of Arabia (the flying carpet’s been clamped), a magic cave of baubles and gold-plated dancers and a great climax in the palace tower with the cast ...
Latest User Review
Quaint Irene - 11 January 2010:
Fantastic. A wonderful cast and setting -- and as for the dancing pandas. We're been singing the panda song ever since....
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