King’s Head Theatre has announced today that their 2025 Christmas pantomime will be Jack and the Beanstalk. Following the success of their inaugural traditional family pantomime Cinderella last year, this marks a new tradition for the venue in its new building. The Angel Islington venue’s holiday offering will run from 23 November 2025 until 4 January 2026, uniquely with both traditional performances fun for the whole family and additional Adults Only performances with very special guest stars each week.
Returning to write and direct King’s Head Theatre’s second annual pantomime is Andrew Pollard, who created last year’s Cinderella. Receiving several 5-star reviews and selling out many performances, Cinderella starred Drag Race UK finalist Ella Vaday and featured the voices of Dame Judi Dench, Miriam Margolyes, and Su Pollard.
Andrew Pollard is a 2023 and 2019 OFFIE Winner and 2023 British Panto Award winner, known for CBeebies’ Robin Hood. Andrew has written pantomime for Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, Lawrence Batley Huddersfield, Imagine Theatre at Swan Wycombe, Watford Palace, Salisbury Playhouse, Mercury Theatre Colchester, Theatre Royal Richmond, Norwich Theatre Royal, CAST Doncaster and Chipping Norton Theatre. Andrew also wrote, directed and starred as the Dame in Greenwich Theatre’s pantomime for 15 years. Last year, Andrew was also a finalist in the Victoria Wood Comedy Writing Award at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre.
The majority of performances for Jack and the Beanstalk will be a traditional family pantomime with a fun North London twist. We join young milkman Jack Trott on a quest to save his mother’s dairy farm Angel Delight on Udder Street and rescue his Moosical Theatre-loving bovine best friend Cowpatti Lupone from the giant.
Alongside the family show through most of the week, on Thursday and Saturday nights, there will be selected Adults Only performances, each featuring a different special guest star. Last year for Cinderella, these guest stars included John Owen-Jones, Cassidy Janson, Danielle Steers, Vinegar Strokes, and Christina Bianco. The adult version of the show will be a no holds barred, naughty version, making it the perfect event for a festive friends’ night out and King’s Head Theatre have added even more of these performances this year due to popular demand.
Jack and the Beanstalk will also have Schools Performances, priced at a special group rate. These will take place on Tuesday 25 November at 1.30pm, and on Dec 2nd, 3rd, 9th and 10th at 10am, and are available to book now. For more information about Schools Performances, please see here.
Sofi Berenger, Executive Producer and Acting CEO of King’s Head Theatre said:
“Last year’s Cinderella exceeded all of our expectations so we can’t wait to build on that this year with Jack and the Beanstalk. It truly was incredible to work alongside so many partners last year and really make an incredible show with and for the whole community – including Little Angel Theatre, Almeida Theatre, St Mary’s Church, Angel Central, Angel BID, Timpsons, Dame Judi Dench and many local businesses, restaurants and other members of the community in Islington all supporting us. It truly was a North London team effort. And we can’t wait to do just that and more this year.
We have so much more to announce, both some exciting returns from our first year and new collaborations to make this year really incredible. And due to the overwhelming demand of last year we’ve extended by a week, doubled our unique adult performances, and added a Pay What You Can performance.”
Tickets are on sale today, starting at £10.
The theatre is offering Pay What You Can on Wednesday 26th November at 6pm. Additionally, if you book before Easter (April 20th) with the code EARLYBIRD, you can purchase £20 Off Peak and £25 Peak tickets on any Band B or D seats for the family show.
Family tickets (2x adults and 2 x children) are also available for £85 for Off Peak Performances and £95 for Peak Performances on all Band B or D seats.
Listings and ticket information can be found here.
