Panto Day 2020
Friday 18th December
Category: Panto Advice
Dec 17, 2021
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Principal Girl: Love, Friendship, Comedy and Quest
Front: Emma Jay Thomas as The Prince of Spades, Gibsa Bah as Jack, The Knave of Hearts and Myla Carmen as The Princess of Diamonds. Behind: Andrew Pol...
Dec 16, 2021
Writing Panto Romance
Production shot from Mammy Goose, Tron Theatre, 2018. Image: JJ Johnston It’s electricity. Or fate. But more often than not, it’s the bit w...
Dec 17, 2020
From Sketchbook to Stage: A Designer’s View
When Designing a Sleeping Trees Christmas Show, it is an experience like no other! Not only are you considering the usual traditions expected from a p...
Dec 17, 2020
Spectacle, Special Effects and the WOW Factor
From start to finish the process to create some of the our effects that we produce for panto takes up to 12 months in advance of the shows. We usually...
Dec 17, 2020
Video and Projection Design for Pantomime
I have been thinking back to this time last year when we opened Cinderella at Fairfield Halls a great deal recently. This was – for the pantomim...
Dec 17, 2020
Crystal Clear: Sound Design
In my 27 years working in theatre, I had managed to avoid the ‘Christmas shows’ aka pantomime for 23 of them! That is until the wonderful ...
Dec 17, 2020
Supervising the music as Musical Supervisor
The role of Musical Supervisor is to essentially be in charge of the music and how it sounds. What this actually entails varies from production to pro...
Dec 17, 2020
5 Ways to Make the Most of a Short Rehearsal Period
Pantomime rehearsal periods are renowned for being the shortest in the industry. It keeps costs affordable for producers, but how do we make sure we c...
Dec 17, 2020
Signing in Panto
Whenever I go to see a show with captions on a box away from the stage and or sign language interpretation at the side of the stage, I feel I’m sitt...
Dec 13, 2019
Battling Villainy and Magic
The Beast’s transformation, Cinderella’s carriage, the accelerated growth of the Beanstalk, the Genie of the Lamp; none of these would exist witho...
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