Aganeza Scrooge

And Aganeza HATES Christmas! She hates those festive jumpers that her employee Bobby Scratchit keeps wearing; hates that Whiny Tim who walks around everywhere with a croquet stick; and don’t even get her started on those ghosts of panto past, present and future that have decided to keep her awake all through the night!  A girl has got to get her sleep.

Aganeza is on a quest to end Christmas! It’s sooooo…..bah humbug.  This year’s Tron panto is an all-female spin on Charles Dickens’ classic tale A Christmas Carol. A wildly funny, family show that will have you singing in the aisles, dancing in your seats and skipping home just like Tiny Tim.

REVIEWS

**** Like the little girl with the little curl, when this show is good it is very, very good.  THE HERALD

****  McKnight’s show is a tremendous romp, with as high a quotient of panto fun as any Christmas entertainment around.  THE SCOTSMAN

****  The tongue-twisters, corny jokes and sweet-throwing are about as far from Dickens as you can get, yet so brilliantly does McKnight fuse the contradictory strands – bittersweet social commentary and pugnacious panto – that by the end, when Aganeza finally sees the error of her ways, he strikes a chord of genuinely warming Christmas cheer.  THE GUARDIAN

****  Beneath a surface which is both traditionally knockabout and expertly crafted, the sense of tension between the haves and have-nots of Dickens’ era is brought vividly up to date.  THE INDEPENDENT

****  There’s so much to love about the show – from Kenny Miller’s gorgeous monochrome designs to Sally Reid as Tiny Tim and her running joke about polio – that you may not notice how faithful McKnight is to A Christmas Carol. What you certainly do notice, though, is how moving is Aganeza’s redemption and how joyous the final chorus of ‘All I Want for Christmas’.  THE LIST