Of course, Og Magog molly already paint their faces all sorts of colours, and wear similarly outlandish clothes. I think it takes Les's concept rather to the extreme, and responses to them are quite mixed as they are seen to deviate pretty substantially from ANY tradition (they remind me of a Monty Python sketch), but lots of people seem to enjoy their fresh, iconoclastic approach and they are certainly evidence that the whole blacking up issue is something that is being taken on board, at least by the younger generation.

Les, as a woman I am not offended by pantomime dames. I don't understand why they all seem to come from Wigan, though - maybe if I lived in Wigan I'd be offended.