Charlotte Ritchie, who played Oregon in Fresh Meat, is to star in a song and dance political pantomime written by Daran Johnson and Liam Williams of sketch group Sheeps.

Ricky Whittington and his Cat will run at the Diorama in north London from December 12 to January 7. 

The cast also includes Ellie White (The Windsors, House of Fools, @elevenish – pictured with Ritchie), Rob Carter (Peep Show, Fresh Meat), Omar Ibrahim (Birds of a Feather), Rosa Robson (RSC, Black Mountain Poets) and David Elms (Borderline).

The plot is as follows: "Once upon a ti-etc. there was a nice lad called Ricky Whittington, who lived somewhere that isn’t London. Frustrated by the lack of social and economic opportunities in not-London, he put all his possessions into a handkerchief-tied-to-a-stick and set off to is-London with his (talking; get on board) Cat, who was a li’l prick.

Ricky soon learns that the streets are not paved with gold, they’re overrun by rats (which represent disenfranchisement, political disillusionment, economic instability, alienation etc.) and that London isn’t a welcoming place for a young person who makes the bold decision of moving there(/here)  without first having been born to rich parents."

Or to put it more bluntly they also say: "London is f***ked. A panto for our times."

Buy tickets here.