Robert Gore-Langton

The art of the panto dame

Robert Gore Langton talks to Britain’s finest practitioners about bosoms, blue gags and whether the panto dame will survive the culture wars

Grande dame: Clive Rowe in Mother Goose at Hackney Empire. Credit: Manuel Harlan

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