Jack and the Beanstalk: What a Whopper!

Formerly the festival staple of defunct gay venue Above the Stag, the annual adult panto from Jon Bradfield and Martin Hooper has bloomed at the substantially larger Charing Cross Theatre – it’s probably about the closest the smutty genre has to a prestige flagship show. This year’s is of course a riff on Jack and the Beanstalk, in which ‘poor, gay and horny’ Jack lives on a dilapidated dairy farm in an isolated village and is on the lookout for ‘something truly giant’. Matthew Baldwin will head the cast disgraced former soap star-turned-dairy-farmer Dame Dolly Trott.