Written by Bath's own panto legend Jon Monie, who also stars as the side-splitting Smee, this year's show is bigger, bolder, and more dazzling than ever! Get ready for gravity-defying flying scenes, stunning choreography, and mind. Stage and screen star Tristan Gemmill (Coronation Street, Casualty, The Bodyguard) will don the infamous hook and sail to Neverland as the fearsome Captain Hook in this year's pantomime spectacular, The Further Adventures of PETER PAN: The Return of Captain Hook. Theatre Royal Bath Pantomime About: Stage and screen star Tristan Gemmill (Coronation Street, Casualty, The Bodyguard) will don the infamous hook and sail to Neverland as the fearsome Captain Hook in this year's pantomime spectacular, The Further Adventures of PETER PAN: The Return of Captain Hook.
Well known to Bath audiences, Sarah Jane Buckley returns to the Theatre Royal in the roles of Ethel Mermaid/Mrs Darling after delighting Bath audiences as Fairy Snowfall in 2023/2024 pantomime, Sleeping Beauty. Written by and starring panto legend Jon Monie, the script for this year's pantomime at the Theatre Royal fizzles with wonderful wordplay and enough innuendo to keep the adults entertained. Bath's Theatre Royal has magicked yet another genie-us feast of entertainment with this year's pantomime production.
Director and perennial dame Chris Harris - Widow Twankey this year - is joined by Ricky Groves, the former Eastenders actor and 2009 Strictly Come Dancing Star, as Abanazar, and CBBC presenter, Trowbridge's very own Gemma. Official tickets and information for The Further Adventures of Peter Pan at Bath Theatre Royal & Ustinov Studio from Ents24. The star of stage and screen will play Captain Hook alongside panto favourite Jon Monie as Smee in swashbuckling Christmas treat The Further Adventures of Peter Pan: The Return of Captain Hook at the Theatre Royal Bath.
PANTOMIME is all about familiarity - familiar stories, familiar routines, familiar songs, familiar faces and Bath Theatre Royal has it in spades, plus the most beautiful theatre in the country. For many years, the theatre had one of panto's great double acts - the much-missed Dame and writer, Chris Harris and his knockabout sidekick, Jon Monie. Since Chris's death, Jon has become.
The Further Adventures of Peter Pan gives the Christmas panto genre a subtly contemporary update. Melissa Blease shares her thoughts.
