Adult Panto is alive and well in London: BrickLane Music Hall Published TIME AND LEISURE MAGAZINE
Jack and His Giant Stalk Brick Lane Music Hall Text in full: Adult pantomime is not a genre I instinctively gravitate towards. Growing up Irish, it simply wasn’t part of the cultural fabric in the same way it is in Britain. That distance, however, made my visit to Jack and His Giant Stalk at Brick Lane Music Hall all the more interesting. From the moment the overture struck up, it was clear this audience knew exactly where they were and what they’d come for and were ready to play their part. The demographic skewed older, with an average age somewhere between 40 and 70, though there were also families and older teenagers (the show is adult-leaning rather than explicit), along with a smattering of audience members who had dressed up for the occasion. What united them was familiarity. This was a crowd deeply at ease with the rhythms of panto: the call-and-response, the knowing groans at the many ‘dad jokes’, and the gleeful cries of “Oh no he didn’t” and “Oh yes he did”...
