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Behind us? How panto rebounded from 2020’s winter of no content

Long ReadsNov 25, 2021
Julian Clary and Paul O’Grady in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, directed by Michael Harrison, at the London Palladium in 2019. Photo: Paul Coltas
Julian Clary and Paul O’Grady in Goldilocks and the Three Bears, directed by Michael Harrison, at the London Palladium in 2019. Photo: Paul Coltas
As theatres prepare for an important festive season, Fergus Morgan finds panto producers are well aware of the big changes that need to be made to the art form and that, despite a cautious confidence about the road ahead, the ghost of 2020 still lingers

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