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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Fisher

The Scouse Red Riding Hood review – Grandma gets high in raucous adult panto

Threat of eviction … Lindzi Germain and Liam Tobin.
Threat of eviction … Lindzi Germain and Liam Tobin. Photograph: Atanas Paskalev

This is Liverpool, so the most frightening set of teeth are those of Cilla Black. Every time the baddies look at them we hear a round of Anyone Who Had a Heart. Laced with poison, they could be fatal.

Did I say Liverpool? I should have said Lidlpool, a city where the middle aisle can save the day and where, in Kevin Fearon’s raucous script, the threat to Grandma comes from two metaphorical wolves. The old woman’s cottage is the only thing standing in the way of a multistorey car park. The lupine property developers, Cash and Carry (Andrew Schofield and Keddy Sutton), will stop at nothing – even Cilla’s teeth – to get her evicted.

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