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16 December 2011 The Scotsman

Too Many Penguins?

A Frozen Charlotte/MacRobert Arts Centre review.

YOU know that feeling when you've invited the relatives over for Christmas and it seems more and more keep showing up? You just don't know where to put them all. That's the dilemma faced by little Penguina in Frozen Charlotte's delightful show for the under-threes.

Jonny McKnight (right) leads the cast in Jackie and the Beanstalk Pic: Douglas McBride

29 November 2011 The Guardian

Jackie and the Beanstalk

By Johnny McKnight. A MacRobert Arts Centre review.

IF anyone still thinks panto is a throwback to a misogynist past, they need to take a look at the MacRobert's glorious giant-slaying romp. Here, the fairytale is fuelled by a fiery female energy, with self-styled "panto-feminist" Jackie helping unmask a Wizard of Oz-style baddie who is little more than a boy with a broken heart. However ridiculous the women look, they are never so inadequate as the men.

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