"McKenna first wrote a version of Sleeping Beauty in 2016, in response to Brexit and the rise of Donald Trump: I was so angry about how our country was being divided, the way people were using and blaming the other. I started embedding a lot of social comment. Panto lets you get something off your chest."
"Within panto land, her name frequently attracts the prefix legend, and no wonder; a former principal boy who steered two decades of festive outings at the Hackney Empire, rerooting theatre's once-commercial juggernauts in the local community."
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