Review: Everymans Rock n Roll panto Three years after the last Christmas show rocked and rolled on the Hope Street stage, the Everyman panto is back – and with bells on. In the intervening seasons between the old Ev being razed and the new Ev being opened, the annual Rock ’n’ Roll Panto decamped to the Playhouse where creators Sarah A Nixon and Mark Chatterton had the chance to add in extras like flying – who can forget, after all, last year’s sight of Adam Keast as an airborne crustacean? Now the writers and the show’s team of set, sound, lighting and AV designers have a whole new raft of gizmos to play with. Thus heroes (and heroines – the radiant Nicky Swift’s fairy, Pippy Petal) descend from the skies, and villains – Zita Frith’s icy Cruella de Vil-style winter witch and her sulky, lupine brother Wolferine (Jonny Bower) ascend from the bowels of the earth. Add in the projection effects and big screen on which Keast’s face swirls alarmingly (I half expect him to instruct me to kill the President of Malaysia while the actor band pump out Relax), plus cascades of petals and snowflakes from the rafters, and it adds up to a visual [...] liverpoolinnews/review-everymans-rock-n-roll-panto/
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 03:30:36 +0000
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