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This year’s panto, The Naivety: A Journey, follows Joe and Marie as they search for a home. They travel through a few pantos past, encountering familiar fairytales and legends along the way.
Panto 2017 will be a mash-up of several pantos past. Joe and Marie are searching for a place to stay, but they’re turned away by the NHS, an Airbnb (run by Cindy and her ugly-on-the-inside sisters), and Jamie Oliver-Twist’s kitchen (run by orphans). Meanwhile, horrible Herod Trump and Melania are on a mission to steal the vulnerable couple’s unborn child. Can the community step in to save the day? The production has once more been made possible through the hard work of dozens of volunteers, each as important as the last and unfortunately too many to name here. From costume to lighting to acting to singing, everybody works for free to make the Panto happen. Last year the panto raised money for the Shepherds Bush Families Project, Women’s Solace Aid and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
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Since the Panto’s first production, this part of the world has changed in many ways, while the Panto has remained a steady and sparkling constant through it all. To this day, it brings all parts of the community together to sing, laugh and dance at Christmas. Nearly all of the kids in the show go to school within a one-mile radius of the Tabernacle. Most of the adults live locally or are constituents of the Notting Hill diaspora – people who grew up in and around the area but have since moved to other parts of the city. For them it remains an everlasting connection to this wonderful part of west London. As for the Tabernacle, this will be the tenth performance to take place on its stage. The Tab is an institution with a similar raison d’être to the Panto. It was founded to safeguard and celebrate Notting Hill’s vibrancy and to have fun while doing it.
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Location Kensington and Chelsea
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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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VolunteerThe Portobello Pantomime founded in 1991 in the Portobello Star Pub. Every year it has included adults and children of the local area, who show their love and support of west London. People who bring more and more energy, love and excitment to the area every Christmas. And every year it is created and performed by volunteers who offer their time for free, and all proceeds goes to local charities including the Shepherd’s Bush Families Project, GLUE W11 and another local charity.
The Pantomime is at the Tabernacle every year, and stars local faces of all ages, with cameos of the likes of Mick Jones, Kate Moss, Sienna Miller, Lily Allen, Jack Whitehall and Natalie Dormer. It is a community focused, and memorable event, bringing people from all backgrounds together to be involved in making it, performing in it, and watching it!
Project Owner: Portobello Pantomime The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
