Robin Hood: the Ottawa Christmas Panto has matured into a much more substantial performance without sacrificing any of the fun!!!
An unexpected pleasure this year. The panto seems to be geared for adults as much as for young ones with nasty jabs at Doug Ford, at Brexit, at Ottawa’s problematic light rail and much more to titillate the adults .There was also an extremely naughty Nanny Annie, the ‘dame’ played by the irreplaceable Constant Bernard who is supposed to be Maid Marion’s nursemaid while flirting outrageously with certain males in the audience and launching jokes meant for fun-loving adults only!. The Brilliant panto dame, our Ninny Nanny is back in Ottawa now after an absence of 2 years. It is such a pleasure to find her still sporting that great voice which takes over the whole theatre, a stage presence that crushes everyone else and a magic that turns her whacky costume into a chef d’oeuvre of grotesque pop art à la Cirque du Soleil thanks to costume designer Lu-Anne Connell’s magical sense of humour . …