Widow Twankey

"Aladdin" Malvern Festival Theatre 2004/05

"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

Nurse Totty

"Robin Hood and the Babes in the Wood"

Malvern Festival Theatre

2003/04

Widow Twankey"Aladdin"

Grimsby Auditorium

2002/03

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

Lady Lavinia Bone-China

(one of the Staffordshire Bone-Chinas)

"Puss-in-Boots"

The Corn Exchange, Newbury

1998/99

"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... Lady Lavinia Bone-China"

Newbury Weekly News

Bridget McFidget

"Sleeping Beauty"

The Corn Exchange, Newbury

1997/98

"extracts every ounce of humour, strutting and pouting in a style even surpassing 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" Newbury and Thatcham Chronicle

Widow Twankey "Aladdin"

The Corn Exchange, Newbury

1996/97

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

Newbury Weekly News

Sarah, The Cook"Dick Whittington"

The Corn Exchange, Newbury

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

Newbury Weekly News