Ambassador Theatre Group Productions have announced a UK and Ireland tour of the pantomime, Mother Goose - the first of its kind to tour the country and play all the way to Easter!

Starring Ian McKellen as Mother Goose, John Bishop as Vic Goose and Mel Giedroyc as the Goose, the show will play at the Theatre Royal Brighton from 3–11 December, before a season at the Duke of York’s Theatre in London’s West End from 15 December 2022–29 January 2023). It will then play Chichester Festival Theatre, Sheffield Lyceum, Wolverhampton Grand, Liverpool Empire, Oxford New Theatre, Bord Gais Energy Theatre Dublin, and Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff, with further venues to be announced soon.

This very special pantomime is written by Jonathan Harvey and directed by award-winning director Cal McCrystal. The production has set and costume design by Liz Ascroft, with choreography by Lizzi Gee, lighting by Prema Mehta, sound by Ben Harrison, puppet design and creation by Chris Barlow, and casting by Anne Vosser.

The show will also star Oscar Conlon-Morrey as Jack, Simbi Akande as Jill, Sharon Ballard as Evil Fairy Malignia and Karen Mavundukure as Good Fairy Encanta. The cast also includes Adam Brown, Gabriel Fleary, Richard Leeming and Genevieve Nicole. Further casting to be announced soon.

Mother Goose (McKellen) and her husband Vic (Bishop) run an Animal Sanctuary for waifs and strays and live a wholesome life inside an abandoned Debenhams. But when a goose (Giedroyc) flies in, will fame and fortune get the better of them?! Will Ma’s feathers be seriously ruffled? Will Pa tell everyone to get stuffed?! And is their fair life about to turn fowl? Get ready for fairies with hefty vocal chords, puppets with tap dance qualifications and impeccably constructed mayhem that will quack up the whole family. This hilarious family-friendly mother of all pantos is the ultimate theatrical feast full of fun, farce and more than a couple of surprises that will make you honk out loud.

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