It’s panto season at Peterborough’s Secret Theatre, and this year’s offering, Penis Whittington, ought to include a health caution– due to the fact that it is rather agonizing smiling from ear to ear for 2 hours plus!
Yes, it’s got the lot, from Peterborough panto preferred Lucy-Jane Quinlan’s Fairy Bowbells introduction through to the (spoiler alert) delighted ending; fantastic memorable tunes, great deals of quickfire ridiculous jokes– and a couple of saucy ones– the sketches all of us understand and enjoy and a panto bad guy– with Alexa Vox in fantastic kind as Queen Rat.
Simon Aylin (checks notes, “back by popular need”) is no fool when it concerns playing the fool– our hero of the piece Penis.
He has amusing in his DNA. and women, book the front row at your hazard! He is rather one for audience involvement.
And it is fantastic double act, with his funny partner David Griffin-Stephens as the Dame, sweet shop owner Fanny Fitzbottom (yes there are some name gags too if you listen thoroughly).
He has some fantastic funny minutes too, and it is all so well provided he might have composed it himself (checks notes, he did).
Abigail Matthews participated the enjoyable too, as Alice, the onstage things of Penis’s love.
No male’s journey from Peterborough to ending up being Lord Mayor of London would be total, naturally, without a large fluffy packed cat, big inflatable, a shipwreck on an odd Island ruled by a disco caring King looking really Elvis-like (Simon Rhys-Jones having fantastic enjoyable) and a lightsaber battle.
Contribute To that some unbelievable music from the pit, a great dancing ensemble and a cast taking fantastic pleasure in sending out each other and themselves up.
Sing-along, dance-along, laugh-along, it’s all developed to send out the audience– the kids in specific– house delighted.
You can see Penis Whittington till January 8. Tickets at www.keytheatre-peterborough.com
1. Penis Whittington panto at the Secret Theatre.
Penis Whittington panto at the Secret Theatre till January 8.
Picture: David Lowndes
2. Penis Whittington panto at the Secret Theatre.
Penis Whittington panto at the Secret Theatre till January 8.
Picture: David Lowndes
3. Penis Whittington panto at the Secret Theatre.
Penis Whittington panto at the Secret Theatre till January 8.
Picture: David Lowndes
4. Penis Whittington panto at the Secret Theatre
Penis Whittington panto at the Secret Theatre till January 8.
Picture: David Lowndes
