It seems only a few weeks since the end of our last village panto but the time to start work on next years is approaching fast. For those of you who do not have panto in your country it is an ancient form of play where the dame is the man comic character played by a man, the principal boy is always a girl......confused yet?
Our small village has a reputation for producing pantos and in some style as well. We are blessed with a range of talents and always seem to have people coming through either adults who get hijacked into playing or kids who grow up with it and some who progress to take leading roles. Of course a village panto will inevitably have local references to characters familiar to the native audience but incomprehensible to anyone from outside the parish, thus making West End transfers unlikely.
Last year we gave our version of The Wizard of Oz which we thought would be hampered by not being able to use the songs from the film due to copyright. However we managed to find other works, that although not being Over the Rainbow, fitted the show well. We were also lucky that the script was written by a local man from Totnes that went along at pace (even though our director complained it did not have our traditional fight scene at the end, she's so blood thirsty)
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