Jack and the Beanstalk
- Management:
- New World Productions for Hazlitt Theatre
- Cast:
- Jake Hendriks, Michael Fenton Stevens, Tom Swift
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Pantomime isn't about originality, but it's always refreshing to see some new ideas. This Jack and the Beanstalk gave us an effective ultraviolet scene, in which Tom Swift, sending up the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, appears to have legs with a life of their own. The same actor's Elvis impression was good, too, along with his range of childish, silly and camp, funny faces and voices. I also enjoyed Simon Barnard's electric guitar duo with a member of the three-piece band, in which Barnard and his guitar lit like a Christmas tree. If you have an actor who can play like that, then it makes sense to exploit it. Barnard's stage presence as Fleshcreep, henchman to the revoltingly rubbery giant, packed a punch too...
Run sheet
- Hazlitt Maidstone
- November 29 08-January 4
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