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Pantomime (/ ˈ p æ n t ə ˌ m aɪ m /; [1] informally panto) [2] is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment. It was developed in England and is performed throughout the United Kingdom, Ireland and (to a lesser extent) in other English-speaking countries, especially during the Christmas and New Year season.
Silent comics (or pantomime comics) are comics which are delivered in mime. They make use of little or no dialogue , speech balloons or captions written underneath the images. Instead, the stories or gags are told entirely through pictures.
American pantomime, panto for short, refers to works of theatrical entertainment that have been presented in the United States of America since 1876. The works are derived from the entertainment genre of pantomime that developed in England, presented either as they are in Britain or adapted for the American stage and tailored to American audiences.
Pantomime or dumb-show Dumbshow, also dumb show or dumb-show , is defined by the Oxford Dictionary of English as "gestures used to convey a meaning or message without speech; mime." In the theatre the word refers to a piece of dramatic mime in general, or more particularly a piece of action given in mime within a play "to summarise, supplement ...
Panto may refer to: Pantomime , a genre of musical comedy stage production, developed in England and mostly performed during Christmas and New Year season American pantomime , theatre entertainments in North America derived from the English entertainment genre of Pantomime
With Bournemouth’s panto season due to launch almost the second Bob Dylan walks offstage, the reverent disciples of the BIC might be forgiven for pointing out that they’re behind him. In a ...
“Ask yourself: what would happen if Kamala Harris did this?” she said in a post on X. “Yes. You saw right. This is Trump on stage at a rally, pretending to perform a sex-act on a microphone.
In early 19th-century England, pantomime acquired its present form which includes slapstick comedy: its most famous performer, Joseph Grimaldi—the father of modern clowning—"was a master of physical comedy". [4] Comedy routines also featured heavily in British music hall theatre which became popular in the 1850s. [5] [6]