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Panto season has arrived – and even the kids are turning their nose up at it

But Lloyd Evans finds some surprising highlights in Hackney Empire’s classic Mother Goose and Leicester Square Theatre’s homoerotic Sleeping Booty!

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  • Mother Goose

    Hackney Empire, until 4 January

  • Sleeping Booty!

    Leicester Square Theatre, until 17 January

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