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Covid quips abound – and the Prince keeps his distance from Cinders – in Nottingham Playhouse’s colourful show
“Recently I’ve lost my sense of taste and smell,” says David Albury’s Prince as he wonders through the woods with Jessica Lee’s Dandini. Clearly it’s not too soon for Covid jokes in Nottingham Playhouse’s traditional panto. John Elkington and Tom Hopcroft as the ugly sisters have already made fun of the socially distanced audience for being too smelly to sit together.
Their quips are true to the defiant spirit of a classy panto. Writer and director Adam Penford is not about to let the small matter of a pandemic stop the show from going on.