Ian McKellen, John Bishop & Mel Giedroyc to star in Panto Mother Goose

Ian McKellen, Mel Giedroyc and John Bishop announced this morning that they would be embarking on a UK and Ireland tour of well-loved pantomime Mother Goose!

With Ian McKellen as Mother Goose, John Bishop as her husband Vic and Mel Giedroyc as the Goose, the show is sure to be side-splittingly funny. The panto will open at Theatre Royal Brighton from 3 – 11 December, before settling in for a Christmas season at the West End’s Duke Of York’s Theatre from 15 December – 29 January.

But the fun doesn’t stop there! The production will tour the UK and Ireland all the way up until Easter!

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.