We always need to create and re-create but if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
All theatre has truth, from Theatre in Education to panto to Shakespeare.
We all have our own areas where we are gifted or where we struggle and that's at the heart of everyone's journey.
Although it may be the easiest, it's not always the best.
If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.
There is of course a dark side to panto because there are always baddies and you can't have a baddie without a dark side. But most of the time the baddies become good.