Anansi and the Strawberry Queen

A folk/rock-fairytale Christmas musical, it takes place, to quote the programme, ‘in and around Strawberry Palace in Strawberry Land in the Land of Fantasia’ and then ‘the Mongoose Territory and the Land of the Serpentine’. The story centres on Anansi, ‘the National folk-hero of Jamaica’, who is part-spider, part-man. The Anansi stories form an integral part of Jamaica’s cultural heritage around which the genre of Jamaican pantomime was built. This was the second Anansi pantomime that the Dark and Light Theatre Company produced.