Mother Goose at Stillington Village Hall

For the third consecutive Christmas, the remarkable trio of actors which form Pocket Panto, brought their version of a Christmas Pantomime to Stillington Village Hall to entertain a full audience comprising young in heart parents and their young in years children. Both enjoyed a superb evening of humour and brilliant acting. The children seemed to lead the adults in answering “Oh, Yes we are!” to the repeated question “Are you ready”, “Oh, No you’re not”, “Oh, Yes we are” each time getting louder and the children getting so excited that they ran up to the front long before they were invited to and started to jump up and down in the isle.

This year the theme was Mother Goose. There was the beautiful Fairy Godmother complete with magic wand and the overdressed and oversized Mother Goose whose magic goose took the form of a puppet which she could hold in her arms but the glistening golden egg it laid was several times bigger than its head. The wicked villain called Victor Vanity dressed in top-hat and tails crept up behind her causing the children to call out “He’s behind you….