Writers: Eric Potts & Liam Dolan
Directors: Eric Potts & Liam Dolan
As conventional household pantos go, you’d be hard-pressed to search out something higher on a stage in Scotland than this 12 months’s extravaganza from The Pavilion – Beauty and the Beastie.
Opening with a bang on the colourful village of Cludgie on the Cobbles and a excessive octane model of Walking on Sunshine, the vitality ranges are by the roof and the viewers are suitably revved up and able to go due to it.
Beauty’s Professor mom decides to go on an journey to a far-flung land known as Paisley the place an unlucky journey by the woods leads to seize by the cranky Beast, as soon as Prince Lorenzo (Scott Fletcher) however now dwelling underneath a curse from the rhyming fairy. Feisty Beauty (Jennifer Neil) comes in search of her misplaced mom (Nikki Auld) and pluckily decides to commerce herself for mum’s freedom.
For youngsters, most of the recognisable components of the Disney model of the story are current, together with the falling rose petals and the love story of the title characters (permitting them to make sense of the remainder of the insanity and mayhem). Gaston comes within the guise of Benedict Bridie (Jack Jester) the useless, native blacksmith with a pair of hapless henchmen (performed with relish by Scottish TV stars and off-stage mates Grado and Stephen Purdon).
What this panto additionally has is the very best conventional Dame, Dolly Drumchapel (Craig Glover) with a jaw-dropping quantity of costume adjustments – every extra outlandish than the final, one thing missing (and much-missed) in different exhibits this season. She has after all a suitably foolish son Hector, Pavilion favorite, Liam Dolan.
The forged are excellent. Many, have after all, labored collectively each festive season collectively for a few years, and this friendship and camaraderie leads to an ease with one another, a pure comedy meaning they will verbally joust and josh with each other and hold the viewers in hysterics. Each performs to their strengths be it comedy, singing or appearing. Their diction too, is price a point out, as it’s razor sharp all through. Not a line, joke or lyric is misplaced.
The skits, songs, dances, slapstick, conventional panto components and storytelling sequences are completely positioned, there’s by no means a minute to get bored, the script is razor sharp from begin to finish, every scene by no means outstays its welcome, every second by no means laboured.
Those who criticise the usage of projections can be satisfied in any other case by this manufacturing. The backdrops are excessive on element and curiosity and permit for a number of adjustments of location that hold the curiosity ranges up for everything of the manufacturing. It’s vibrant, vibrant and lively, and appears they manner you desire a panto to look. The costumes are eye-catching and full of element.
This is kind of clearly a well-oiled machine, the forged, script and viewers are made for each other. The interactions elicited from the viewers members younger and outdated, unmatched.
This 12 months’s unmissable Glasgow conventional household panto, it’s heat and pleasure will depart you feeling that each one is properly with the world. The good leisure for the festive season.
Runs till 12 January 2015 | Image: Contributed
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