Panto review: Having a ball with Cinderella at Cork Opera House 

Nanny Nellie steals the show as usual, but there's plenty more to enjoy at the Cork Opera House pantomime, writes Esther McCarthy

Frank Mackey as Nanny Nellie in Cinderella at Cork Opera House. Picture: Shane Horan

Cinderella, Cork Opera House 

When Baroness Melania Hardup first stalks menacingly onto the stage, my little five-year-old buddy shrieks, her eyes wide in proper terror. Oh, this baddie is GOOD. Michael Grennell plays the fabulously nefarious wicked stepmother to perfection; he puts the vile in villain.