Qdos postpones pantomimes in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Belfast

## First Qdos 2020 cancellations announced A variety of Qdos [**pantomime**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/tickets/pantomime) shows have cancelled their 2020 dates and postponed to 2021. **Qdos Entertainment** announced earlier this week that it would begin postponement consultations after the UK Government unsurprisingly failed to meet their [**deadline of 3 August**](https://www.londontheatredirect.com/news/qdos-sets-deadline-on-when-to-decide-whether-34-pantomime-shows-will-go-ahead). **Oliver Dowden** recently announced that it probably wouldn't be until November that theatre will know when performances without social distancing can recommence. ### Edinburgh King Theatre's last pantomime? So far eight pantomimes produced by Qdos have been postponed to next year, including *Sleeping Beauty *at **Edinburgh's King Theatre**, which will now run from 27 November 2021 until; 16 January 2022 with **Andy Gray**, **Allan Stewart**, **Jordan Young**, and **Grant Stott** confirmed to reprise their roles. It will be the venue's last staged panto before it undergoes major renovations in the summer of 2022. The owner of the King Theatre, **Capital Theatres**, receives 30 per cent of its annual income from festive pantomime productions. Chief Executive **Fiona Gibson** stated: "*There are only three occasions in its 114 year history that a King's panto has not taken place, the last time being 1968 ….so 2020 will be another landmark moment for all the wrong reasons!*" **His Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen** has also rescheduled its production *Beauty and the Beast*, which will now run from 4 December 2021 to 9 January 2022, while the **Grand Opera House in Belfast** has also moved *Goldilocks and the Three Bears* to 27 November 2021 - 9 January 2022. View a rolling list of rescheduled Qdos pantos below. ### Rescheduled Qdos pantomime productions * ***Beauty and the Beast* **- Aberdeen (His Majesty's Theatre)***** ***Rescheduled to Sat 4 Dec 2021 - Sun 9 Jan 2022** * ***Goldilocks and the Three Bears** *- Belfast (Grand Opera House)***, **Birmingham (Hippodrome)***** ***Rescheduled to Sat 27 Nov 2021 - Sun 9 Jan 2022** ***Rescheduled to Sat 18 Dec 2021 - Sun 30 Jan 2022** * ***Sleeping Beauty*** - Bradford (Alhambra Theatre)*****, Bromley (Churchill Theatre), Crewe (Lyceum Theatre), Edinburgh (King's Theatre)*****, High Wycombe (Wycombe Swan) ***Rescheduled to Sat 11 Dec 2021 - Sun 16 Jan 2022** ***Rescheduled to Sat 27 Nov 2021 - Sun 16 Jan 2022** * ***Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ***- Bristol (Hippodrome), Hull (Hull New Theatre)*****, Swansea (Grand Theatre), Woking (New Victoria Theatre) ***Rescheduled to Sat 11 Dec 2021 - Sun 2 Jan 2022** * ***Aladdin*** - Cardiff (New Theatre), Glasgow SEC (Scottish Event Campus Armadillo), Llandudno (Venue Cymru), Manchester (Opera House), Plymouth (Theatre Royal Plymouth) * ***Cinderella*** - Darlington (Hippodrome), Glasgow (King's Theatre), Richmond (Richmond Theatre), Southampton (Mayflower Theatre)*****, Southend-on-Sea in Essex (Cliffs Pavillion), Stoke-on-Trent (Regent Theatre) ***Rescheduled to Fri 10 Dec 2021 - Sun 2 Jan 2022** * ***Jack and the Beanstock*** - Dartford (Orchard Theatre), Hayes (Beck Theatre), Milton Keynes (Milton Keynes Theatre), Swindon (Wyvern Theatre) * ***Humpty Dumpty*** - Newcastle (Theatre Royal) * ***Dick Whittington*** - Northampton (Royal and Derngate), Wimbledon (New Wimbledon Theatre) * ***Robin Hood*** - Hastings (White Rock Theatre), Nottingham (Theatre Royal)*** *Rescheduled to Sat 4 Dec 2021 - Sun 9 Jan 2022** * ***Dick Turpin Rides Again** *- York (Grand Opera House) * **To be announced** - London (Palladium)

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