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She was the most celebrated drag act of the age, beloved of royalty, a national treasure who delighted and scandalised the British public by performing as a wo
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She was the most celebrated drag act of the age, beloved of royalty, a national treasure who delighted and scandalised the British public by performing as a wo
<strong>Editorial:</strong> There’s nothing like a panto to banish the blues, especially if it stars Sir Ian McKellen as Mother Goose – the grande dame of seasonal fun and frolics
Fire the glitter cannons! Unleash the water pistols! The panto season is here. But how did the cross-dressing dame become so central to the tradition? And in an age of gender fluidity, should we still be laughing?
A PANTO season is always special. For youngsters it might be their first experience of the theatre and they are captivated by the magic of it all.
EXPLOSIVE, unpredictable and terrifyingly talented, Stuart Macbeth is not so much a musical dynamo as a nuclear reactor in the advanced stages of…