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JACK AND THE BEANSTALK: An E-Town Panto

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK: An E-Town Panto

A Theatre Yes Production, written by Ruth Alexander & Nikki Hulowski

November 29 to December 20, 2026

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK: An E-Town Panto

A timeless tale with a fresh Edmonton twist & Canada’s first-ever Rock ’n’ Roll Pantomime! Dame Beverly Heights is glamorous, wise, and humble, but her beloved boutique dairy, Moo La La, is in trouble. With the business going broke, her teenagers Jackson and Laurie dreaming of rock stardom, and her cherished cow Milky White up for sale, things couldn’t get worse… until a terrifying giant threatens Rogers Place! The Heights family must save the city in this hilarious, high-energy adventure featuring 22 classic hits from the 1970s to today.

CREDITS: 
Director: MAX RUBIN
Music Director: RUTH ALEXANDER
Choreographer: ANNA KUMAN
Producer: ANDY COHEN
Set & Props Designer: BEYATA HACKBORN
Costume Designer & Head of Wardrobe: JESSICA OOSTERGO
Video & Projection Designer: AMELIA SCOTT
Lighting Designer: HEATHER CORNICK
Sound Designer: DAVE CLARKE
Dramaturge: JENNA RODGERS
Technical Director: WILL CHICHAK
Stage Manager: LORE GREEN
Assistant Stage Manager: JESSICA HAIGHT

FEATURING:
RUTH ALEXANDER as Fleshcreep
RON PEDERSON as Dame Beverly Heights
BILLY BROWN as Jackson Heights
HANNAH ADAMSON as Laurie A. Heights
CHARIZ FAULMINO as Fairy Canola
with TAYLOR FAWCETT, BERNARDO PACHECO & MAXWELL VESELY

For Theatre Yes:
Ruth Alexander & Max Rubin, Co-Artistic Producers
Mel Bahniuk, Marketing Coordinator

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ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES

Supported by the Citadel Theatre’s Heart & Hub program, the accessible performances of JACK AND THE BEANSTALK: An E-Town Panto help make live theatre more inclusive, welcoming, and enjoyable for everyone. Through audio description, open captioning, and a relaxed theatre environment, these experiences reduce barriers to participation and allow more audience members to engage with the story in ways that best meet their needs. They create space for people of all abilities, sensory needs, and backgrounds to experience the joy, connection, and magic of live performance together. Click here for more information.

Biographies

Musical Director

Ruth Alexander

Since graduating from Rose Bruford college of Speech and Drama in 1994 she has worked as an actor, musician, and theatre-maker across the UK, Europe and Canada.

Acting credits include A Christmas Carol, Once, the Musical ( Citadel Theatre ) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Freewill Shakespeare Festival) The Children (Wildside Productions) The Birthday Party, TWO (Edmonton Fringe), Les Miserables (UK Tour), Richard III (Northern Broadsides), Sweeney Todd (Bolton Octagon) Rasputin ( Hamburg)

Credits as Musical Director include Uptown Girls (Citadel Theatre) The Invisible, Vigilante (concert performance and cast recording) & Nevermore (Catalyst Theatre), Little Women, Romance, Romance (Opera Nuova) Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (London Revival) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Vienna’s English Theatre).

Ruth was Lisa Dalton in Coronation Street and appeared in countless plays for BBC radio drama. She also works as an educator in some of the world’s leading institutions including The Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Mountview Theatre School & The Institute of Arts, Barcelona. She worked alongside Max Rubin at Lodestar Theatre company for many years where she co-produced, composed, performed in and musically directed shows including Macbeth, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The house that dripped Horror, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet & The Master and Margarita.

Director

Max Rubin

Max is a director from St Austell, Cornwall, UK.

From 2000 – 2008 he was an actor / musician with roles at Lyric Hammersmith, Liverpool Everyman, Theatr Clwyd, the Duke’s Lancaster, Liverpool Royal Court, Oldham Coliseum, Northern Broadsides, Walk the Plank and various other tours. All too briefly, he was Paul Katowski on ITV’s Coronation Street.

In 2006 he co-founded Lodestar Theatre Co which produced The Liverpool Shakespeare Festival. Lodestar worked in cathedrals, quarries, nightclubs, cemeteries, crypts and sometimes theatres. Highlights include Macbeth at Liverpool Cathedral, A Midsummer Night’s Dream at St James’ Gardens, Hedwig and the Angry Inch at The Kazimier Nightclub, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, The House That Dripped Horror at Liverpool CUC, The Master and Margarita at Unity Theatre, Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet & The Labyrinth of Light at Liverpool City Hall. He also taught acting and improvisation at various drama schools.

Other directing credits include Macbeth (Liverpool Royal Court) James (Theatre In the Quarter), Lear, The Comedy of Errors, The Country Wife, (LIPA), Spring Awakening (Oslo), Mad Forest (UNorthampton), A Jacobean Christmas (Hampton Court Palace) Black Snow (Unity Theatre), Silence (IABarcelona). Canadian credits include Two, Private Lives – Varscona Theatre, Dead In The Water, The Pillowman, (as performer) An Oak Tree, Lucky Charm -Theatre Yes.

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