Theatre reviews: Mother Goose, Byre Theatre, St Andrews | Jack and the Beanstalk, Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy

There comes a point, in Gordon Barr’s glorious 2019 panto for the Byre Theatre, when Alan Steele’s Mother Goose announces to the company that it’s all getting a bit like a bad production of Into The Woods, Stephen Sondheim’s musical featuring a radical take on traditional fairytale characters. And she is right, in all but one detail; because the show under way at the Byre is not bad, but rather one of the brightest, funniest and most thoughtful brand-new pantomimes to grace the Scottish stage for a year or two – and that in a field where the competition from rival radical panto-makers is nothing if not fierce.