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Aladdin at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, reunites him with Links of London Sale Gail McIntyre for a new version of the story of a boy, a princess and a genie. This "Christmas magic carpet ride" isn't a pantomime, but the fourth in their series Big Stories For Little People. "I feel like it's a growing, developing, organic thing. There are certain things that are basic. We're taking these big children's mythological fairy tales, often known enough from panto or Disney, and looking at what's in that, developing them and growing them through the relationship to audiences and way the story is told." Kenny has wanted to tackle Aladdin for some time. It belongs among the big panto stories but is one of the few with a male central character. Because Aladdin is about wishing and getting anything you want, he sees it having a special relevance considering our recent history of unfettered Links of London Rings. Story and real life also have a royal wedding in common. Barney George's design took into account Kenny's worries about Aladdin's story being loaded down with a "fake Eastern thing - curly shoes, turbans and those sort of things". So the set resembles Leeds Market. The stuff on the stalls takes the audience all over the world, achieving an exotic and universal appeal. Market signs have been created by local schoolchildren. Kenny has three other shows - two Snow Queens and Northumberland Theatre Company's rural tour of Beauty And The Beast - on the go this Christmas. The Railway Children looks set to go on and on. "When we started at National Railway Museum, I think everybody thought this is sitespecific - perfect for this place and time, and that will be it. "Then we did again and it got taken to London. Once you've upped sticks and gone somewhere else once, anything is possible. I think it's very, very English, and one of those things that accidentally hits the spirit of the time. People in it do the right thing, whether it's to do with political refugees or charity giving." Kenny has started talking to co-directors Damian Cruden Links of London rock star guitar charm Paul Burridge about The Mystery plays. Or rather, how many of the plays they consider and what the 2012 version is about. "Whatever you do, you're going to upset somebody. One of the things that recurs is the length of it and some people slightly like the fact that they are being asked to endure it, " he says. Before that comes Peter Pan, part of a seven month season at the Theatre Royal that will see the theatre converted into an in-the-round auditorium as it was for Wind In The Willows. Kenny is going back to the book, written after the play, for his version. He notes this is the third book he's adapted that was written in the first ten years of the 20th Century and read by the generation that grew up to fight in the First World War. "I get all the best jobs, really interesting and exciting adventurous stuff to do all the time, " he says. "A lot of TV is just 'let's keep them happy, keep them entertained'. That's okay, that's all right, but there are so many other places you can go to."All this is history. The Sunni Hamas ("Islamic Resistance Movement") and the Shi'a Hizbullah ("Party of God") are becoming the Links of London S Charm for masses of young people all over the Arab world. As the Wikileaks show (here I go, mentioning them after all) not one single Arab regime gives a damn about the Palestinians.