Notes
This article was first published in the Guardian (Review section) on 4 December 2003 and is kindly reprinted with permission from the Guardian.
Fred Rome, Potted Pantos (London: Wolfe, 1971).
The production opened in December 2003 and was revived the following Christmas.
Mark Ravenhill's ‘panto’ of Jack and the Beanstalk is due to open at the Barbican theatre, London, in December 2006, directed by Ed Hall.