The Wicked Witch ‘Adelphaba’ (played by Gigi Zahir) on stage at the Pleasance Theatre in North London Ella Carmen Dale/Handout
Ella Carmen Dale/Handout
LONDON — Foreboding music begins. A scary green witch announces her arrival with a cackle. It’s the opening of Wicked Witches, a British holiday-time play known as a “pantomime,” at a North London theater.
But soon after she walks on stage, it’s clear the witch isn’t happy with the audience.
She says
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