Children’s favourite The Snowman is one of the best Christmas shows in London - Tristram Kenton Tis the season to be jolly – and to head to the theatre! It just wouldn’t be Christmas without a West ...
Pantomimes are plays based on a well-known story — often a fairy tale — which are given a bawdy twist. The audience is ...
Shared Charm in Audience Interaction Both art forms thrive on improvisation, with performers and spectators co-creating ...
There are some UK Christmas traditions that people from the US might not recognize. Every Christmas, British families watch pantomimes or meet their school friends at the pub. They also eat Yorkshire ...
LONDON — Here’s a recipe as essential to Christmas in Britain as turkey, tinsel and mince pies. Mix a fairy-tale plot with topical references, slapstick, song, dance and double entendres. Drench in ...
Watching Window Twankey or Dame Trott making veiled innuendos in a room with screaming toddlers is a staple of British family life.
“Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.” So mutters Scrooge — who didn't keep it at all. But he wasn't wrong. We don't all keep Christmas the same way. Britain is where "A ...
Foreboding music begins. A scary green witch announces her arrival with a cackle. It’s the opening of Wicked Witches, a British holiday-time play known as a “pantomime,” at a North London theater. But ...
Pantomimes are plays based on a well-known story — often a fairy tale — which are given a bawdy twist. The audience is expected to join in... 'It's behind you!' How Britain goes wild for pantomimes ...