“How I love a proper pantomime, and over recent years how I have come to depend on Brighton Family Panto to deliver the goods, oh yes they do! (and no answering back). In the newly named Jason Sutton Theatre, in the recently renamed  Doubletree by Hilton, formerly the Brighton Metropole we find this year Sleeping Beauty.

But into that mix you have to bring together a cast that is sufficiently talented to make it work. Many of us know the work that David Hill and his company E3 do year on year, but why it has taken him so long to don the drag and tackle panto dame I do not know, he is made for the role, and his dame is proper, totally trad, huge, flamboyant and clearly a man in a frock. That is the essential element of playing dame, something that the much missed Jason Sutton embodied. Hill pounds the stage, terrorising one poor young man in the audience and belting out the songs like a good ’un. It’s a comedy star turn with frocks to match.”

Andrew Kay, Latest News