pantos
Holiday stage comedies
Pantos is the plural of panto, the British shortening of pantomime—a theatrical genre featuring fairy tales, slapstick comedy, audience participation, and cross-dressing performers, traditionally staged around Christmas: The kids loved this year's panto.
The form is distinctly British; Americans rarely encounter pantos outside theatrical contexts.
Winter nativity celebration
- dameDated slang for woman
- slapstickExaggerated physical humor
- CinderellaRags-to-riches heroine
- AladdinStoried genie summoner
principal boy · audience participation · villain · hiss · boo · fairy tale · finale · songsheet
Christmas
Winter nativity celebration
- dameDated slang for woman
- slapstickExaggerated physical humor
- CinderellaRags-to-riches heroine
Aladdin · principal boy · audience participation · villain · hiss · boo · fairy tale · finale · songsheet · ugly sisters
plural
More than one
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pantostragedies
Dramas with fatal endings
straight plays · Greek tragedy · Shakespearean tragedy · Greek tragedies · Shakespearean tragedies
pantosgrand opera
Fully sung dramatic spectacle
opera · ballet · classical ballet · classical theatre · high drama
- Greek pantheonHellenic divine hierarchy
- pantomime horseCostume for paired performers
- pantomime villainTheatrical antagonist audiences boo
- Roman pantheonAncient Italian gods collectively
- pantomime dameMale playing female comedically
- Hindu pantheonIndia's traditional deities collectively