This week I was invited to an extraordinary pantomime performed by the Fitzrovia Community at the Soho Poly directed and written by multi-talented Lucia Jaffer, who’d formerly asked me to run workshops at recent Fitzrovia Fetes.
‘A Curious Dream’, inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland involved members of the Fitzrovia community including eighty year old John Hibbs, (‘I’ve always wanted to be a pantomime dame’), costume designer extraordinaire who’d made outfits for the stars, including Diana Dors. The cast list also included a local Labour counsellor playing the Mad Hatter.
My only contribution to the event, apart from being an enthusiastic audience member, was carrying two giant toadstools from the theatre back to the Community Centre, where there was a splendid tea party.