Adventures in Pantoland review: A joy to be back in Cork Opera House 

It might be a smaller cast and reduced audience, but after last year's cancellation, it felt special to be resuming the Christmas tradition

Nanny Nellie (Frank Mackey), centre, with Fairy Tonkerbell (Valerie O’Leary); and Snow White (Thérèse O'Sullivan) at the Cork Opera House pantomime.  Picture: Brian Lougheed

Hissing through a mask is hard, but it didn’t stop us. We couldn’t help ourselves, the baddie Balthazar called us maggots and knuckleheads, the dirty-looking eejit.

Nanny Nellie’s Adventures in Pantoland swept the entire (albeit reduced) audience away on a magical ride through a land where evil magicians try to steal enchanted books but are foiled by loved up Jack, his feisty neighbour Jill, tipsy trainee fairies (Tonkerbell had too much Fairy Liquid) and of course, the star of the show, the glorious Nanny Nellie.