XXXmas Carol

Big Loop in Co-Production with Wales Millennium Centre

Watch Polly Amorous and friends do Dickens under the mistletoe in Cardiff’s most chaotic anti-panto ever.

Putting the 'ass' back into Christm-ass with drag, burlesque, circus and songs, XXXmas Carol will have you gagging for some stuffing.

This bizarre retelling of Charles Dickens’ yuletide nightmare is perfect if you like things a little more naughty than nice for your festive season.

We’ve raided the local taverns, prisons and workhouses to bring you the most weird and wonderful artists in all of south Wales, including Rahim El Habachi, Foo Foo LaBelle, Bunmi Odumosu, Eric McGill and Geraint Owen.

Forget the Christmas past – this is a Christmas present to remember for the rest of your Christmases yet to come. You’d be a muppet to miss it.

What People Said:

“a swirling cabaret-style night of pure, unadulterated pantomime chaos.”

“Dickens has never been reimagined in quite this way before.”

“an absolute bamboozling delight. Deliciously naughty, faultlessly sarcastic and witty”

“it’s a fantastically good festive night out.”

“The costumes are spectacular, the variation in performances feels as though you’re at some sort of variety show in a parallel universe”

“XXXmas Carol is like a grown-up version of your classic pantomime – but with heaps more talent, variation, swearing, and sass.”

★★★★
— Beth Steer, Reviews Hub

“a bizarre retelling of Charles Dickens’ yuletide nightmare”

“a mix of racy, sensual and devious routines of dance trapeze, acrobatics and contortion. It’s wonderful to watch, and the whole room was in laughter and in awe”

“we were all in stitches”

— Penarth view

“this has become the new standard for any variety show I see and will not accept anything less!”

★★★★★
— Fairy Powered Productions

“a raucous anti-panto; joyous and outrageous but with a compassionate look at how different people feel about the festive season.”

“Imagine Moulin Rouge dropped right into the heart of the capital”

“We loved every hip grinding, innuendo filled second of the show, as did the packed theatre, and from start to finish, the performers had us under their festive spell.”

“It is a cracker of a Christmas show”

— South Wales Life

If you are over 18, not faint hearted and want to be wondered, wowed, and pee yourself laughing get yourself to the XXXMas Carol.

— Radio Cardiff

Company
Polly Amorous 
Foo Foo LaBelle 
Rahim El Habachi 
Eric McGill 
Bunmi Odumosu 
Geraint Owen 

Director 
Duncan Hallis 

Designer 
Petros Kourtellaris 

Design Assistants
Ruby Boswell-Green
Lucile Russing
Nikita Verboon 

Lighting Designer 
Sherry Coenen​

Producers
Ben Clark 
Peter Darney 
Jasmine Okai 
George Soave 

Production Manager 
Nick Allsop  

Stage Manager 
Philippa Mannion 

British Sign Language Interpreter
Cathryn McShane 

Creative Associates 
Nerida Bradley 
Tafsila Khan