Knight Fever!

This was a real family pantomime full of fun, slapstick, wit, colourful costumes and some very effective lighting and sound effects. In fact all the necessary ingredients for a panto.

In the Kingdom of Camelot Justin, a young stable boy, wants to marry Princess Anna but reckons he can only do this by helping King Arthur overcome the dangers which threaten Camelot and  becoming one of King Arthur’s Knights. Helped by Lester the Jester he eventually overcomes the wicked Black Knight in a joust and of course all ends well.

Yiorgos Perris was perfectly cast as the very funny, fine Jester who had the audience eating out of his hands from the word go delivering his witty jokes with perfect timing and totally at ease on stage. Young Calum Bowden too was a very natural performer and matched well with the lovely Caty Kerr, Princess Anna. Keith Bowden was a  rather resplendent Dame Doris Dumpling who brought great humour to the part with his/her impromptu actions and reactions.The Black Knight (Cameron Aitchison) received all the expected boos and hisses from an audience who interacted and responded to the action on stage throughout the evening.

King Arthur (Huw Thomas) and his entourage Queen Guinevere (Gill Sullivan) and Merlin (Joe Burnett) commanded the stage. I particularly enjoyed Lexi Lanes performance as Chardonnay La Fey the Sorceress. A young lady with good clear diction and a stage presence.

The company of young Kinights looked great and gave it their all particularly in ‘Knight Fever’ and ‘Go Quest’ which were well choreographed.

This may be a small company performing on a small stage but everybody is so natural and spontaneous which is what panto is all about. Any small hitches were sorted out with humour and the odd ad.lib.which added to the frivolity.

Children brought on stage, a sing a long and sweets thrown into the audience all contributed to the fun being had by the performers and the audience.

Forth Dimension panto is always a pleasure to attend and really gets me into the spirit of Christmas.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.’ Oh Yes I Did !’

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