Panto is jam-packed with local talent

Reamba Productions strive every year to produce new and exciting pantomimes, this year bringing you Cirencester’s biggest panto.

Packed with all of the traditional pantomime ingredients audiences expect, Aladdin features laugh-out-loud comedy, beautiful costumes and plenty of boos and panto hisses.

Follow Aladdin, his brother Wishee Washee, and, of course, his mother Widow Twankey, on a spectacular adventure.

Don’t miss this GENIE-us production guaranteed to put a smile on your face, whether you’re three… or ninety-three.

Like the overdue Robin Williams-lively incarnation earlier than him. Will Smith promised that his genie withinside the Guy Ritchie live-motion remake of Aladdin could be blue. And, as discovered to the sector withinside the movie`s modern day trailer, Smith`s model of the fast-speakme genie with a coronary heart of gold is undeniably blue. He`s blue like Violet Beauregarde after she chewed the experimental gum in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory blue. He`s blue like Tobias Funke whilst he tried to enroll in Blue Man Group in “Arrested Development” blue. Smith`s genie is so blue that it makes you begin to marvel how the wish-granting genie of the lamp got here to appearance that manner withinside the first place.

The popular culture genie of Nights we apprehend today, however, become fashioned with the aid of using European illustrators, starting with the frontpieces carried out for 18th-century translator Antoine Galland`s Les Mille et Une Nuits.

Once European colonialism expanded, however, she commenced to observe “essentialized differences” happen in Nights translation. “In the nineteenth century the whole thing related to Nights receives an imperialistic twist to it, so it will become extra racist,” she says.