Humpty Dumpty — the excuse.

Whereas the York Theatre Royal Pan­to­mime is the highest qual­ity load of old rub­bish you could ever hope to see in your life­time.  It just  gets more out­rageous every year — more cos­tume changes, more elab­or­ate sets, more ad lib­bing, less plot, and, in this case, Humpty Dumpty humpty dump­tied after the first scene.  Ber­wick Kaler has made this his gift to the people of York for over thirty years, aided and abet­ted by Mar­tin Bar­rass, Suzy Cooper, and David Leonard  and it is just won­der­ful — I hope to keep going as long as Ber­wick does.