Belvoir’s The Boomkak Panto is a joyous, subversive and Australian twist on the classic Christmas tradition
- Written by Gabriella Edelstein, Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle
This review contains spoilers.
Review: The Boomkak Panto, directed by Richard Carroll and Virginia Gay, Belvoir
The great Victorian playwright George Bernard Shaw was not an admirer of pantomimes. He wrote in 1897 that this dramatic genre is “a glittering, noisy void”, which worries “the physical senses...