Happy Feet director George Miller gives Glengarriff panto a shout-out

The mind behind the Mad Max and Babe film series, and classics like Lorenzo's Oil, has saluted the cast and crew of Glengarriff Theatre Group's production of The Snow Queen

"Mad Max: The Road Warrior" director George Miller at a Q&A session following a screening of the movie during the SXSW Film Festival on Monday, March 16, 2015 in Austin, Texas.

Panto season is back in earnest after the Covid crisis and Glengarriff Theatre Group is getting ready for this weekend, when more than a thousand people will head to the Beara Peninsula village's Eccles Hotel to witness a cast of young and adult actors give life to the classic tale The Snow Queen.

GTG's Eoghan Quish says: "We're a theatre group for youth and adults as well. We put on productions for Christmas and Spring nearly every year — we couldn't the last few years because of Covid, but we put on a panto every Christmas, and this one is The Snow Queen — a local director who used to work in the UK, Maggie Frame, she's producing and directing.