Memory Lane

Pantomimes in North Wales in past decades

A look back at a theatrical tradition during the festive period.

Iolo Griffiths

InYourArea Community, Iolo Griffiths

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Pantomimes in North Wales in past decades

Sharon Roberts prepares for opening night of the pantomime at Rhyl's Little Theatre 'Sinbad' in 1988

The Wrexham Pantomime Company principal boy Judy Walker from Chester with the help of junior troupe delivers a song to the audience at the rehearsals of Mother Goose at the Aston Hall, Wrexham, December 1959.
Debby Jones, aged nine, receives a helping hand from Fiona Mills, aged 15, while getting ready for the Wrexham Pantomime company’s production of Mother Goose in January 1970
Gwernymynydd Drama Group staged a pantomime in the 1970s
Glan Conwy pantomime, sometime in the 1960s
Llandudno's Ysgol John Bright pupils Lyndon Morris and Kay Hellen in their school's pantomime, Oliver, in 1995
Church House Amateur Players in rehearsal for their 1993 pantomime Babes in the Wood. Earlier in the year there were fears for the group's survival after a forced move from Deganwy, but the panto played to packed houses all three nights, and on the Friday night they had to turn people away at the door

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