Pantomime

Malvern Festival Theatre

2004/05

"Aladdin"

as "Widow Twankey"

"James Biddlecombe's Widow Twankey is excellent in the way of great dames"

The Birmingham Post

"James Biddlecombe splendidly reveals he comes from that long line of perfect panto dames"

The Advertiser/Messenger

Malvern Festival Theatre

2003/04

"Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood"

as "Nurse Totty"

Grimsby Auditorium

2002/03

Aladdin

as "Widow Twankey"

"The kids loved James Biddlecombe asTwankey ....... ...a Cruella De Ville look-a-like but without the bad points"

Grimsby Telegraph

Corn Exchange, Newbury

1998/99

Puss-in-Boots

as "Lady Lavinia Bone-China" (one of the Staffordshire Bone-Chinas)

"Special mention must go to James Biddlecombe...even more outrageous and colourful than his incarnation last year, Bridget McFidget"

Newbury and Thatcham Chronicle

"Our favourite character...James Biddlecombe as Lady Lavinia Bone-China"

Newbury Weekly News

Corn Exchange, Newbury

1997/98

"Sleeping Beauty"

as Bridget McFidget

" ....extracts every ounce of humour, strutting and pouting in a style surpassing even his efforts last year as Widow Twankey"

Oxford Mail

" ....born to play Bridget McFidget....who comes over as an oversized Ronnie Corbett on fairy dust"

Newbury and Thatcham Chronicle

"The best panto dame in the South....a triumph"

Newbury and Thatcham Chronicle

Corn Exchange Newbury

1996/97

"Aladdin"

as "Widow Twankey"

"Widow Twankey was superb and treated the audience as part of the cast; no mean feat!"

Newbury Weekly News

Corn Exchange Newbury

1995/96

"Dick Whittington"

as "Sarah the Cook"

Outstanding as Sarah the Cook, a true Dame without cheap laughs"

Newbury Weekly News