REVIEW: Slipped. Cinderella … Rebooted, Royal Vauxhall Tavern London ✭✭✭✭

Slipped panto review Royal Vauxhall Tavern

Mark Ludmon reviews the Royal Vauxhall Tavern’s new pantomime, Slipped: Cinderella…Rebooted Slipped: Cinderella…Rebooted Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London Four stars After taking a fabulous wrecking ball to Mother Goose and Aladdin, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern has given a queer twist to another classic panto with Slipped. Aimed very much at grown-up boys and girls, this is the Cinderella story like you’ve never seen it before. It has everything you expect from a traditional panto, from classic audience interaction and innuendo to songs and silliness, but all “rebooted” with gay abandon. Cinders defies her ugly stepmother to party at the ball but the handsome prince turns out to be more interested in what’s on her feet than the girl herself. Packed with jokes good and bad, the show is full of topical cultural references, and only a little politics, thanks to sharp comic writing by Tim Benzie and Paul Joseph. As with … Read more