Pantomime Magazine

16/07/2025

16/07/2025

🎪 Step right up and join the panto magical mayhem! 🐻✨

We are thrilled to announce audition information for The Priory Theatre’s fabulous festive panto Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

🗓Date: Sunday 27th July
⏰Time: 3:30pm
📍 Location: Priory Theatre, Kenilworth
💻More information: www.priorytheatre.co.uk/auditions/goldilocks-auditions

Whether you’re a seasoned star or stepping onstage for the first time, we’d love to see you there. Come join the fun, the laughter and the magic of panto!

16/07/2025

🎭 We're Hiring!
Step into the spotlight behind the scenes. We're looking for a Deputy Head of Wardrobe (maternity cover) to help bring our productions to life from our base in Coventry.
https://www.trafalgarentertainment.com/careers/

25/06/2025

Issue 12 of Pantomime will finally be released on Friday 27th June 2025!

This has been a long time coming and marks the end of our 3rd year of publication. Thank you for all your support so far

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16/06/2025

🎭 AUDITION CALL: Junior Chorus for Sleeping Beauty 🎭
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

📅 Audition Date: Sunday 29th June
🕙 Time: 10:00 AM
📍 Location: Belgrade Theatre, Coventry

We’re on the lookout for talented young dancers aged 9-16 (up to school year 11) to join the Junior Chorus for this year’s magical pantomime production of Sleeping Beauty!

If you’re local to Coventry and love to dance and perform on stage, this is your chance to shine in the city’s most exciting festive production!

✨ just turn up on the day or download the registration form from the theatre website Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
✨ Wear comfortable clothing and bring water.

Don’t miss your moment to be part of the panto magic!

16/06/2025

16/06/2025

Introducing the first member of our Scriptwriting Panel: Susie McKenna!

Susie has been an actor, writer and director for over 40 years working in theatre, nationally and in the West End, television and film. After an eight year tenure as Creative Director at Hackney Empire, she worked under Indhu Rubasingham as Associate Director at Kiln Theatre until 2022.

Susie has worked in pantomime throughout her career, playing her first principal boy at the age of 19 at Oldham Coliseum directed by Kenneth Alan Taylor, before going on to appear as principal boy at Nottingham Playhouse for 8 years.

After writing and directing Hackney Empire's first 'in house' pantomime, Dick Whittington, in 1988, Susie wrote and directed the critically acclaimed pantomimes there every year up until 2020's 21st anniversary production of Dick Whittington, set in post-war London 1948 as Dick arrives on the SS Empire Windrush. For this production, she won Best Director at the Great British Pantomime Awards.

Since 2023, she has written and directed pantomimes at Broadway Theatre, Catford. Jack and the Beanstalk was nominated for Best Script at the UK Pantomime Awards and last year's Sleeping Beauty won an OFFIE for Best Production. The 2025/26 show will be her Windrush Dick Whittington directed by Pete Rowe. This Christmas, Susie is writing and directing Aladdin at the newly refurbished Soho Walthamstow Theatre which opened earlier this year.

Susie is a trustee for the UK Pantomime Association.

Book your tickets for the Scriptwriting Panel at the North Wall Arts Centre: https://www.thenorthwall.com/whats-on/pantomime-panel-scriptwriting/

16/06/2025

Our next Scriptwriting panel member is Toby Hulse!

Toby Hulse is a playwright and theatre director based in Weston super Mare who specialises in work for families, young audiences and in educational contexts. He has created new work for theatres across the UK and has written four original pantomime scripts. He wrote Sleeping Beauty for Oxford Playhouse, Puss in Boots and Jack and the Beanstalk for Chipping Norton, and an immersive Jack and the Beanstalk for Southwark Playhouse. He is currently writing Dick Whittington for Oxford Playhouse and in those strange days post-Covid, he performed as Professor Brian Baggybottom in his own shows Oh Yes It Is! about the history and traditions of pantomime.

Toby has twice won the Distinguished Play Award from the American Alliance for Theatre and Education and was part of the team that received this year's Award for Innovation at the UK Pantomime Awards.

Book your free tickets for the Pantomime Panel: https://www.thenorthwall.com/whats-on/pantomime-panel-scriptwriting/

10/06/2025

We are delighted to announce that AJ & Curtis Pritchard will star in Cinderella at Venue Cymru this December, reprising their roles as Prince Charming and Dandini!

10/06/2025

Could you be a judge for The Pantomime Awards 2026? We are seeking new judges to join our experienced team who will cover the length and breadth of the UK. Whether you're a theatre reviewer, a performer or creative or an avid panto-goer we'd love to hear from you.

To apply, please complete this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdjhGg9F3R3kdvw7MNutg2_DBFrg0Sl-y0vUQqGUIyJsJyhaw/viewform?pli=1&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAad9Rudw-JH0Civ1a3FQUMV2rOMDBpz8n4kxTVMQ2yAqOLhFaGu_sDZKe_uc8Q_aem_EUXbjDiP9lEZPSuLoV4isA

Applications will close on Sunday 13 July 2025.

04/06/2025

Are you a creative, performer, student, producer or part of a venue team? Are you interested in exploring the future of writing pantomimes?

Join us at The North Wall Arts Centre on 1st July as a panel of top writers from across the country discuss excellent practice in pantomime script writing.

Stay tuned in the run up to the event as we announce who will be on our panel!

Book your free tickets now: https://www.thenorthwall.com/whats-on/pantomime-panel-scriptwriting/

04/06/2025

Hard to believe that our June issue will mark the end of our 3rd year of publication - where has the time gone.
Still time to grab a copy of our current issue with our tribute to the fabulous and much missed Nigel Ellacott, and part 2 of our cut-out and build theatre.

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