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Visit London Asks: Which Pantomime Are You Seeing This Christmas?

The wonderful Clive Rowe plays Widow Twanky at the Hackney Empire this Christmas

Hurrah! Panto season is here! (Oh no, it isn’t! etc)

From Brian Blessed to Pamela Anderson, Lesley Joseph to Jane Asher, various celebrities are stepping into their sparkly costumes over the coming weeks to entertain London in the traditional Christmas show.

You’ll find there are plenty of Aladdins (Epsom PlayhouseHackney Empire, Millfield Arts CentreNew Wimbledon Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East) and Cinderellas (Broadway Theatre, Beck Theatre, Harrow Arts Centre, Jacksons Lane Theatre, Orchard Theatre, Unicorn Theatre and Watford Palace Theatre) to chose from.

But there’s also a couple of Dick Whittingtons, and a handful of Snow Whites too.

London also offers some fantastic alternative Christmas entertainment, taking the traditional panto and spicing it up for the adults. If this is more your scene, you can choose from Robin Hood at Brick Lane Music Hall, and Sinderfella at Leicester Square Theatre…

Where will you be getting your dose of fairy dust, improbable plot twists and throat-hoarsening audience participation this Christmas?

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Once on this Island at Hackney Empire

Holy City's Sharon D Clarke stars in Once on this Island

Once on this Island is billed as a “jubilant Caribbean musical” – and that’s exactly what it is.

Set among tropical palm trees, with brightly coloured costumes and Calypso-infused music, the show brings a taste of the Caribbean to Hackney Empire.

Through storytelling and song, Once on this Island tells the tale of a young peasant girl who falls in love with a wealthy planter.

But the path of love doesn’t run smoothly, as the girl’s fate is decided by the island’s gods of love and death.

Once on this Island takes you through a range of emotions, exploring themes of class, love, death and regeneration.

Despite a not-so-happy ending, the show is very family friendly, and people of all ages should leave the theatre feeling jubilant.

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