Tuesday, May 15, 2018

What is a Pantomime?

What is a Pantomime?
  1. A theatrical entertainment, mainly for children, which involves music, topical jokes, and slapstick comedy and is based on a fairy tale or nursery story, usually produced around Christmas.
    a dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through gestures accompanied by music.



The Christmas Pantomime colour lithograph bookcover, 1890, showing the harlequinade characters
Pantomime  is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is still performed throughout the United Kingdom, generally during the Christmas and New Year season and, to a lesser extent, in other English-speaking countries. Modern pantomime includes songs, gags, slapstick comedy and dancing, employs gender-crossing actors and combines topical humour with a story loosely based on a well-known fairy tale, fable or folk tale. It is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.

A link to a Pantomime

What Does Slapstick mean?

Comedy based on deliberately clumsy actions and humorously embarrassing events.

How could Slapstick be in Our Play


Aunty Sila is a main character which is played by a boy, he could fall over, not Listen to anyone and stuff like that.

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