National Theatre Live: Dick Whittington – A Pantomime for 2020
Dec 23, 2020 | IMDB 0
122 min Watch NowComedy
First staged at Lyric Hammersmith in 2018 and freshly updated for 2020, Ned Bennett directs this wild and inventive production and explores what it is like to come from a small town and arrive in a big city today. With a host of colourful characters, irreverent jokes, talking animals and popular songs this is Dick Whittington as never seen before.
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