{"id":533304,"date":"2025-10-28T13:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533304\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T13:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:23:16","slug":"jeremy-corbyn-to-appear-in-north-london-panto-jeremy-corbyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/533304\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Corbyn to appear in north London panto | Jeremy Corbyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">He has spent a whole career dealing with booing and hissing in the House of Commons. But now in the run-up to Christmas, the former Labour party leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/jeremy-corbyn\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeremy Corbyn<\/a> will bring that experience to bear as he appears in pantomime at a north London theatre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The Islington North MP, who sits as an independent, will perform as the \u201cWizard of Oz-lington\u201d in a drag production of Wicked Witches. The venue said he would make an onscreen cameo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe Pleasance [theatre] has been at the heart of our community for 30 years, and local theatre like this deserves our support,\u201d Corbyn said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cPanto brings people together \u2013 it\u2019s fun, inclusive and a brilliant celebration of creativity. It\u2019s a pleasure to conjure up a little festive magic with the Pleasance in their 30th year. Local theatre is where the real wizardry happens \u2013 sparking imagination and spreading a bit of joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The head of theatre at Pleasance London, Ellie Simpson, said: \u201cJeremy\u2019s as much a part of Islington as the Yellow Brick Road is of Oz \u2013 so who better to play the Wizard of Oz-lington?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cHis cameo adds a touch of local sparkle to our wickedly funny festive panto, which marks Pleasance\u2019s first in over 20 years and raises the curtain on our 30th anniversary celebrations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The theatre said: \u201cThis Wicked-inspired pantomime Wicked Witches \u2013 A Popular Panto! will whisk audiences down the Yellow Brick (Caledonian) Road for a gloriously camp Christmas spectacular, packed with cabaret, pop parody and plenty of laughs for those young and old alike. Expect soaring vocals, sparkly spells, and more sass than you can shake a wand at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Corbyn sits as an independent MP after his expulsion from the Labour party shortly before the 2024 general election. He has formed a new leftwing political party \u2013 still known unofficially as Your party \u2013 with his fellow former Labour MP Zarah Sultana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He has spent a whole career dealing with booing and hissing in the House of Commons. But now&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-533304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115452012410657370","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}