Review - Tweedy’s Reduced Pantomime

SO, we know 2020 has not been that great but, if you let them, Tweedy and his friends aim to turn that around for you in the Everyman Theatre’s ‘Tweedy’s Reducued Pantomime (That Might Go A Bit Wrong!)’.

Speaking for myself, I do not know the last time I saw anything performed live, music, theatre, it’s even been ages since I’ve been to the cinema.

I cannot understate how much I missed it.

The lights, the music, the singing, the jokes, all combined together and it made my heart almost explode. I felt literal tears as I remembered how close to my heart I held the stage and her performers.

Originally, the Everyman Theatre was set to perform Jack and the Beanstalk this Christmas, but due to the virus who shall not be named, it was shockingly cancelled.

But the teams who make all these events possible were damned if they were to be defeated. So with a reduced budget, a reduced team and reduced cast, Christmas didn’t get cancelled and the show really did go on.

And what a show it was. With boundless jokes at coronavirus’s expense, combined with comedian and

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legend Alan Digweed’s timeless Tweedy humour and charming silliness, there wasn’t a bored face in the crowd.

It seems a whole world away now that the ridiculous statement was made about the performing arts not being “essential” workers, and the crude advice to retrain was made.

And anyone who was in the (socially distanced in a fantastically organised manner, well done Everyman, proverbial hats off) crowd during Tweedy’s Reduced Pantomime, I’m in no doubt would share my sentiment.