Pantomime is a British family theatre tradition for the winter months, in which classic fairy tales are rewritten as satirical, camp, broad comedies, with songs, innuendo, audience interaction, puns, ...
LONDON — 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 ...
On Sunday 13 April, the winners of The Pantomime Awards 2025 were announced by the UK Pantomime Association at a ceremony full of song and laughter at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking. Elaine C Smith ...
LONDON (AP) — 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 ...
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 ...