The panto that changed my life: 'Aladdin showed the soothing joy of laughter " it let me celebrate my silliness'
Vikki Stone's festive tomfoolery, staged after the Covid lockdowns, captured that strange time and achieved a special giddiness When I was a child, I did not go to pantos. I was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, where I lived until I was 12. It was years later, when my sister's boy Nicholas was about five, that I first discovered it " and it was through his eyes. We saw one at Stratford East and he was blown away by how coo…