With pantomime season upon us, here’s a look at the history of the polarising form of festive entertainment 🎄 With Christmas approaching ever nearer, it’s time that the great British custom ...

The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands.When William Blake wrote these lines he had been touched by the spectacle of ...

THE PLAY. Snow White: A British Panto, has been produced twice before at City Theatre, in 2008 and 2013. This production has some of the cast members from the 2013 production, and is a mix of both ...

Pantomime has deep roots, stretching back to the stock characters and bawdy humor of the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte and the French harlequinade, as well as the English music hall.

Performed in the style of a traditional English pantomime, PETER PANTOmime is an imaginative retelling of the beloved Peter Pan classic. Filled with singing, acting, and tapping, ...

British pantomimes are a huge part of Christmas for many households (Picture: Splash/MNA) Along with pigs in blankets, the annual John Lewis Christmas advert, and drinking Bailey’s by the pint ...

EXCLUSIVE: British comedy legend Jennifer Saunders (Absolutely Fabulous, French and Saunders) will make her pantomime debut as Captain Hook in Peter Pan this winter holiday season at the world ...

Marcel Marceau, who spent more than half the 20th century re-popularizing the ancient art of pantomime for a modern age, was born 100 years ago this month. Accessibility links.

As seasoned panto-goers know, the Dame is always the one to choose and she, of course, tends to pick the most uncomfortable looking man in the audience (men, you’ve been warned).

Playing Captain Hook is another Canadian – schoolteacher Sean Broadhurst, returning for a third stint on the Hong Kong panto stage. Like Mr. Grasic, the Calgary native had no familiarity with ...

A big number in the Portland Panto Players' holiday show of The Wizard of Oz, Dec. 12, 2024. Kristian Foden-Vencil / OPB “One of the things we tell people is to loosen your sphincter,” Kohn said.