Dick Whittington, Town Hall, Loughborough
Town Hall, Loughborough: Loughborough's panto is always one of the fastest paced and jolliest in the region, and evil doesn't have a chance of triumphing here. But Sion Lloyd's gravelly-voiced thug of a King Rat and his sidekick, Stinky (Jamie Sheerman), pump volumes of energy into making us think it might. He even has his own loo on stage with a personalised cistern and an elevating seat. Read the f…