Are you looking for a little traditional Scottish fun? Then it's your
lucky day. The International Society is going to the Pantomime on Friday 17 December at 1pm.

If you think you may have heard about Pantomime before, let's clarify a couple of things:

(Taken from Wikipedia.org) In the UK, pantomime (or panto) has come to mean a non-silent form of theatre, incorporating song, dance, buffoonery, and satire, traditionally performed at Christmas...
The form has a number of conventions, which include:

• The leading male character (the "principal boy") is played by a young woman.
  
  
• An older woman (the "dame") is played by a man in drag.
  
  
• There is a great deal of audience participation, including calls of "he's behind you", and "oh yes it is" or "oh no it isn't". In both style and content, modern Panto has very clear and strong links with Commedia dell'arte — a form of popular theatre arising in the early middle ages in Italy and reaching England by 16th century. Shakespeare would have been very familiar with its forms and conventions.

The play we are attending is "Mother Goose"

There’s trouble in Pantoland! Mother Goose is in such a flap! The Bills keep coming, the Cooncil Tax has just gone up, and she’s in danger of losing Goose Hoose! What’s more she’s having to raise Gertie and Gwendolyne without a feather figure! All she ever dreams of is a little nest egg to see them through!

So when the family’s genetically modified goose starts laying Golden Eggs of course she thinks she’s cracked it! But that’s when her troubles REALLY begin!

Tickets are £5 for members.

If you'd like more information:
http://www.theambassadors.com/kings/sp_p1145.html.