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SIX months ago the annual Attic Theatre panto at Aberdeen Arts
Centre looked well and truly scuppered. Thousands of children
were going to be deprived of the opportunity to scream blue murder
and win a prize for it.
However,
I must have been at the Attic Panto last night because my ears are
still ringing. No other panto in town whips kids up into such
a frenzy. Chief whip last night had to be Ashley Walker, whose
hairy Widow Twankee looked like an extra from Gorillas In The Mist.
Meanwhile Alan Duncan's Abanazar was the perfect inept, grizzly
villian. Gayle Watt was every inch th eleggy thigh-slapping
Aladdin, the suspiciously glamorous Wishee Washee.
Directed
by Stuart Mearns and written by Jean McLeod and Alan Duncan, Aladdin
is a wizard panto complete with stunning effects, a horrible giant
dragon and an energetic cast.
Roddy Philips
Friday 4 December 1998 |
