A party is happening in the basement of behemoth department store Selfridges; it’s housed a theatre since the summer, which hosted a production of 'Much Ado About Nothing', but now some altogether more fabulous residents have moved in for panto season. And talk about #SquadGoals, the first pantomime from genderfucked performance gang Sink the Pink is suberb from start to finish and will leave you with a sore face from smiling.
The walls of the space are lined with pink, gold and silver fringing, and the beams are covered in silver glitter with pink neon strip lighting, so it kind of feels a bit like being in the centre of a disco ball. Set in a forest where even the rats are well-dressed, the villain of the piece, Fat Cat – who chats to the USA’s shiny new demonic president on a phone that Zack Morris might consider a little big – wants to turn The Rabbit Hole club into luxury flats. A truly London story told via the medium of drag, the panto is an allegory of our capital’s endangered club scene. Our heroine is Lady Bunny – played by writer and director, Ginger Johnson – who is battling to save her club and family home. Regular panto fixtures Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio and the Big Bad Wolf are all here but this time they’re wearing five-inch heels, singing about hard-ons and battling narcolepsy and as in all good drag shows, there’s an applause provoking reveal and plenty of innuendo.
Clever use of treadmills for the chase scene, a chair dance inducing rendition of ‘Chauvinists, Sexists and Misogynists’ and a snow machine all come together to make it brilliant, bizarre and completely unmissable.