REVIEW: Red Riding Hood (Talisman Theatre)
This is Pantoland with its own form of Brexit from the norm. Without any need for Article 50, it merrily mixes its political puns into a melting pot along with the likes of Bo Peep, Red Riding Hood and the Three Little Pigs. Writer-director Stephen Duckham has taken tradition by the horns and sent it stampeding in several refreshing new directions. At the same time what are surely seen as the essentials – hissable baddie, lovelorn youth, audience participation – remain intact