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Looking back at the glittering, magical, laughter-filled and completely subversive piece of theatre that is His Majesty’s panto in Aberdeen.

Panto legend Alan McHugh and TV’s Call the Midwife star Laura Main have been announced as the hosts of the second Archie Foundation Variety Show in Aberdeen. Talented young magicians, dancers, singers ...

Or, at any rate, as dark as it gets when you’re playing Abanazar in this cheerfully rambunctious Aberdeen panto. As per the familiar story, Osmond’s swaggering baddie heads to old Peking where ...

Aberdeen actress Sophie Boyne is to go to the ball at His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen this Christmas in the title role of the 3D panto Cinderella. A record number of over 32,000 tickets have already ...

I’ve been playing the dame in Aberdeen for the last 15 years so I try to make it different. It’s an exaggerated version of me in a silly costume, which goes for most panto dames. So she is ...

Pantomime represents a welcome injection of cash for many theatres and it has proved to be a real theatrical survivor. ... This year they have 24 shows across the UK from Aberdeen to Plymouth.

There are very few in the business who know pantomime as well as the Glaswegian writer and actor. Not only has McHugh been Aberdeen’s dame for some 19 years, but he also writes an extraordinary ...

What pantomime can you drive a coach and horses through? Cinderella, of course - thereby creating a moment of true fairy-tale magic! The pumpkin’s transformation into a gorgeous glittering ...