10 Facts About Pantomime

Pantomime is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.

Pantomime is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is encouraged and expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.

Pantomime has a long theatrical history in Western culture dating back to the era of classical theatre.

Pantomime differed from mime by its more artistic nature and relative lack of farce and coarse humour, though these were not absent from some productions.

Pantomime gradually became more topical and comic, often involving spectacular and elaborate theatrical effects as far as possible.

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Pantomime was so extravagantly natural, that the most saturnine looker-on acknowledged his sway; and neither the wise, the proud, or the fair, the young nor the old, were ashamed to laugh till tears coursed down their cheeks at Joe and his comicalities.

Pantomime is performed in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Australasia, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, Malta and Andorra, among other places.

Pantomime was imported for a British expatriate audience and later adapted by Maltese producers for Maltese audiences.

Pantomime was brought to Switzerland by British immigrants and is performed regularly in Basel, where the first British-style pantomime was performed in 1994 in a hangar at Basel Airport.

Pantomime as described in this article was seldom performed in the United States until recent decades.