"Central to the performance – and providing most of the laughs and audience participation – are North East comic Steve Walls and BBC Radio’s Paul Harris as Wishee Washee and Widow Twankey respectively. Walls, in particular, is the central figure who holds the show so impressively together. You might have heard some of the jokes – for instance, my phone only works in a church, I’m on pray as you go – before but they are delivered with such timing and enthusiasm that they keep the crowd smiling."

"For the second year in succession, local lad Steve Walls returns to the Playhouse panto in the role of principal comic. Having excelled as Muddles in last year’s production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, this year he takes the role of Wishee Washee and ups his game yet again. It is with total expertise that he establishes a rapport with the children in the audience, who are all thrilled to be part of his ‘gang’, yet his near-the-knuckle gags (which go straight over the kids’ heads) make him a firm favourite with the adults, too. Only a comic of the highest calibre is capable of achieving such a feat."

Steve Burbridge; uktheatre.net