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'I learned to sword fight in heels': how Susie McKenna is rewriting the rules of panto by Deborah Linton

With subversive scripts and a spotlight on local talent, this former principal boy is busy revolutionising pantomime " but there's still room for bawdy gags Few people have their spindle-pricked finger on the panto pulse like the writer-director Susie McKenna, whose festive formula has set the tone of theatre's Christmas canon for decades. Within panto land, her name frequently attracts the prefix "legend", and…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM on November 15, 2024

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