Big top pantomime from Planet Circus

 

It's behind you! But not this year's big top entertainment, as one of the UK's biggest circus companies pitches its tent for a big top pantomime this Christmas.

Planet Circus is putting on Cinderella in Lincolnshire from 11 December to 3 January.

Other yuletide entertainment includes a Christmas season at the Great Yarmouth Hippodrome while the Circus of Horrors kicks off its Revamped and Rockin' theatre tour at Wookey Hole January 8.

And the good news is that the social distancing and other safety measures that Britain's big tops have put in place since returning to the road this summer have proved effective.

According to official test and trace results, not a single transmission of Covid-19 has been attributed to a circus or theatre show this year.

Remember, remember

This darkness will not last forever. There will some day come a Fifth of November — or another date, it doesn't matter — when fires will burn in a chain of brightness from Land's End to John O' Groats. The children will dance and leap about them as they did in the times before. They will take each other by the hand and watch the rockets breaking, and afterwards they will go home singing to the houses full of light...

P. L. Travers,