Jack and the Beanstalk success: thousands enjoy a colourful family adventure

This year’s Devonshire Park pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk opened last week to a very busy weekend and since the curtain went up thousands of theatre-goers have been enjoying a vibrant, action packed, family spectacle.

The show is packed with all the traditional panto elements that Eastbourne’s team are famed for embracing.

A spokesperson for the theatre said: “The sounds of ‘Fe Fi Fo Fum’ have echoed around the grand Victorian playhouse and audiences have been enthusiastically getting involved with the ‘He’s Behind You’s’ and ‘Boos’ for resident baddie Steven Serlin as henchman Fleshcreep.

“Children, and adults alike, have been wowed by the Giant Blunderbore with comedy favourites Martyn Knight (Dame Trott) and Tucker (Simple Simon) back again and causing all kinds of chaos.