It's behind you! York's panto dame bows out after 40 years

Berwick Kaler, who says this year’s show at York Theatre Royal is his last, promises loyal local audience a night of ‘absolute rubbish’

After hundreds of frock changes, decades of in-jokes, countless singalongs and not a single identifiable plot, Berwick Kaler is to retire as York Theatre Royal’s resident panto dame. He will hang up his trademark ginger wig after this year’s show, The Grand Old Dame of York, which is his 40th at the theatre and his 50th pantomime in total.

Kaler, who had heart bypass surgery before writing and starring in last year’s show, said that the audience’s passion for panto is what has kept him coming back. “The audience have always given me the nod and the wink, saying that’s great or you’ve gone too far. Every line is written with them in mind.” The Grand Old Dame of York opens in mid-December and runs until the start of February. It is, says Kaler, “a culmination of every pantomime I have ever done at York in as much as it has no story, no plot – and it’s absolute rubbish”.

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