'Aladdin' is my favourite pantomime of them all. In Norwich, Richard Gauntlett wrote, directed and acted in it a few years ago. He's always the Dame, so he played Widow Twanky. It's meant to be set in Peking (Chinese laundry, you see) but the characters all have Arabic or Muslim names. (wicked Uncle Abadnazar etc) so the geography is a bit suspect to say the least. The Norwich production had a glorious slapstick scene in the Laundry with water and suds flying everywhere, and Widow Twanky and Wishy-Washy soaked to the skin.
There were lots of jokes yesterday about Trump. The villain (Stinky Pete) threatened to run for President, and Nigella Trottalot said, "Well, we could always have a Referendum!" whenever things weren't going well.
I could happily watch the whole thing again, but all the tickets are sold out very quickly.