Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper! is a ridiculous high-camp night out – review
The pantomime is very much a British tradition and within queer theatrical circles this particular pantomime is something of an institution.
Now in its second year at the Charing Cross Theatre, it’s put together by the same production team behind the pantomime which ran for many years at the (now sadly defunct) Above the Stag theatre in Vauxhall.
We had lots of fun checking out Sleeping Beauty Takes a Prick last year and we were very much looking forward to seeing this year’s offering, Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper!
The story unfolds in Upper Bottom, a sleepy Yorkshire town which is home to the titular Jack (Keanu Adolphis Johnson) and his mother Dame Dolly Trott (Matthew Baldwin), who in this version of the story is a washed up soap star.
