CANADIAN REACTS | What is British Pantomime??
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- So what's the deal with British Pantomime?? This week, let's compare 3 different types of British pantomime and you'll see my first-hand reaction! As a Canadian living in the UK, pantomime is completely new to me... let's find out what the fuss is about!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a RUclips video every Tuesday and an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 6:30pm GMT on Twitch.
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I think you do have to go and see a pantomime in person to get an idea what they're about Alanna. I didn't really understand them until I went to one with my family a few years ago, but after a few minutes I was shouting "he's behind you" and boo at the villain as loud as the rest of the audience. I think it's the interaction between the performers and the audience that makes it work :)
Fair enough!
@@AdventuresAndNapsPanto goes back to the Renaissance times - obviously it's changed over the years, but the basic format never changes, it's full of stock characters - principal girl (heroine) principle boy (hero - girl dressed as a man), a Dame ( man dressed as an ugly woman) a comic (a young man who is a bit stupid, but loveable who always helps the principle girl/boy get together) - is usually the son of the Dame, or works closely with them.
Even though the stories may change, the basic characters stay the same - that's why it's so popular - you know exactly what's going to happen - basically Good versus Bad with lots of silly jokes and slapstick.
Oh no it doesn’t! 🤣
@@nicholasjones7312 yes it does.
@@alman54 He's behind you!
Alana, as a fellow Canadian living in the UK for the last (God knows how many) years, I can say this -
Panto is great. It's not a kids v adult thing. A good panto has jokes on 2 levels simultaneously. The obvious slapstick for kids, and the (probably slightly innapropriate) jokes for the adults on top.
I am Russian and I love British pantos. Especially after my mum came here to visit us and she watched it with us. She only spoke basic English but she found it very funny and got all the adult jokes. She still keeps talking about that panto now, it brought her so much joy!
North Americans generally, I find, take things very literally, and very seriously.
I think its maybe the "Puritan" thing?
A huge part of British theatrical tradition is farce.
Ridiculous and surreal situations which you really need to suspend any kind of "literalism" to enjoy.
Punch and Judy is another example.
What I actually really find funny is North Americans puzzlement at it all.
one of the funniest things I saw come out of the american Alt-Wrong was an oUtRaGe video about the hOrRoRs of the LeFt, pointing at a drag act reading childrens' stories to kids all theatrical. I was like, "these are gonna lose their minds with PANTO!" hahahaha!!
@@alansvartr
You have completely misunderstood my comment, and used it to make a facile political point...when there WAS NONE.
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The one with Paul Merton had Ade Edmondson as the dame and Neil Morrissey.
Did you know that they do have panto in Canada? yearly at the Hudson Village Theatre in Quebec and at Toronto's Elgin Theatre each Christmas season.
Basically Panto is a farce, full of slap stick, jokes for adults and kids, where the audience is encouraged to join in (break the 4th wall). Things always happens, actors forget their lines or something goes wrong and the actors break character and just crack up. But it's all part of the panto fun.
You really need to go to one or even take part in one. I have done both, and they are just so much fun.
Panto is literally for everyone. There's the stuff for the kids to join in and treats and easy jokes. There's stuff for adults, like double entendre and innuendo. The guy lead is usually a cute girl in a short skirt and the lady lead is a guy and gorgeous. Its traditional, silly, fun.
Oh no it isn't.
@@Mariazellerbahn He's behind you!
@@Mariazellerbahn Oh, yes it is!
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oh yes it is
@@wellingboroughanddistrictu3a
oh not it isn't
Hi Alana,
Panto is definitely NOT just for kids or adults. The whole point is that the kids have great fun and the adult humour goes straight over their heads and the mums and dads get to have a good laugh too. Panto demolishes the so-called "Fourth Wall" in theatre as everyone (yes everyone) has to join in with the cast. If you ever get the chance, please go along to a good one and check it out for yourself, it is so utterly stupid but at the same time great fun. You won't regret it - and if you get yourself into London, the Palladium Theatre has Donny Osmond starring in its Panto this year!
It's a great british tradition. A good panto entertains everyone. The atmosphere in the theatre can be so christmasy. Merton and Edmondson are brilliant.
Pantomime is based, loosely, on bawdy Italian comedy of the 18th and 19th centuries, it was watched by people doing the Grand Tour back then and the idea was brought back. They are written to appeal to all ages, the innuendo goes over the kids heads or used to, the often topical and risqué jokes appeal to Mum and Dad. The cross-dressing is a dig at the time when it was illegal for women to perform on stage and all parts were played by men with boys dressed as women, hence the Dame being played by a man and the principal boy/male by a women.
Great explanation of where it came from, I knew the time frame it came from and the reason behind men playing women and the other way round but that was all
"Oh NO it isn't".....
@@roberttreborable Oh yes it is !
@@roberttreborable LOOK OUT!!!
It's behind you.
British tradition at it's finest and the more it confuses foreigners the better, we love them. Every panto has to have certain ingredients, men played by women and women overplayed by men. Matinees are for the kids and evening shows for grown ups, although not always the case. The sayings you must learn are:- He's behind you: Oh yes it is: Oh no it isn't: and you have to be able to BOO and cheer very loudly, this is the law! Local village hall productions are just as good as the big theatre ones, but more intimate. You haven't experienced one yet, which is deplorable if you've been here 6 years, really lady, get with the program!
Hear hear...You said it all...👏👏👏...It's obvious that British humour is definitely different to American humour...Innuendo is everything and if you don't get the subtleties, then you never will..The other thing with Pantomine is audience participation, which is not known in other countries..We are unique and long live Panto and long live men dressed as women, women dressed as men and sexual innuendo..Outdated..!! Never...If the PC brigade try to ban these, then I'm leaving this planet..😐
@@maihindess1 Sorry to tell you this Amaryllis, but the HSE have already banned throwing sweets to the kids, tis a slippery slope we are on.
@@chasfaulkner2548, I took my grandchildren the last Christmas before lockdown and they were giving sweets out to the kids in the audience.
I have often wished to be a pantomime dame.
There is only one way to appreciate panto - live in a theatre, accompanied by a couple of kids. The kids see people live that they've only seen on TV before. Pantomime dames are essential but also you need a good villain to boo. And a principal boy (who is of course a girl), and a heroine (who is also a girl ) and lots of audience participation. Silliness and bad jokes are essential ingredients. Add in the occasional good fairy (perhaps a fairy godmother). Throw some candy/sweets into the audience and there y'go.
Just said a similar thing. Like music concerts, it really needs to be live to get the experience. A screen simply can't capture that.
Quality of production and cast also help a lot. Too many pantos chuck minor names on stage, who can't act. You still need actors who can act to deliver the silliness and so on, which is what that last one worked better.
I wouldn't lke to live in a theatre - he heating bill must be enormous
or even the heating bill
@@eddisstreet I see you've embraced the bad jokes part of panto.
The throwing of sweets into the front rows was banned a few years ago for Health and Safety reasons, sometimes I think H&S goes a bit too far. (Someone hit by a flying Snickers fun size?).
Not reaction material but Jim Davidson's Sinderella with Charlie Drake is a must see adult rated panto....as for the rest, taking your kids to a theatre with all the Christmas atmosphere and excitement can't be beaten, it's often British kids first experience of live theatre and if you can get tickets with famous celebrities making idiots of themselves, even better. Even David Hasselhoff has had a go...it will end up as a lasting memory...and if it snows on your way out of the theatre, like it did one year we went, it's magical :)
Sinderella is absolutely dire.
@@emdiar6588 I agree but it's dire in a good way ... lol
@@lynnhamps7052 It's so irremediably poor that it kicks right through being "so bad it's good" and goes straight into "Why the fuck would anyone watch this?" territory.
It loses all trace of the playful innuendo of panto and just goes for cheap, easy, hacky, face value seediness.
Like when the Carry On franchise tried to go soft porn with Carry On Emmanuel, Sinderella tries to straddle two worlds and fails miserably on both fronts.
Right, so I literally asked my husband the other day what a Panto is. He was like...ugh...this. And he proceeded to show me an old as hell video on YT. I was crackin up! Being Canadian and never seeing this before, I find them funny and refreshing. Maybe my brain turns to mush around the holidays...but this sort of simple hilarity beings a smile to this grinchs face 😊
Hoping you are enjoying the season over there, eat a real mince pie for me..please 😄🥧
Also, amazing video as always!
Living in Portugal where there are no mince pies, my wife has started making her own (and she's vegan). They're absolutely amazing and better than anything I ever tasted in the UK. Dried fruits and nuts soaked in brandy for a few weeks before and a shortcrust pastry made with sunflower margarine. Unbelievably good, as big as you like and with custard, crème fresh or yoghurt. Our daughter even took a mince pie pasty back to Ireland.
@@ianworley8169 I've actually made my own as well...but nothing compared to my English mother in laws....love the vegan life!!
There's usually a lot of audience participation with traditional phrases for the kids to say such as "He's behind you!" or "Oh, yes it is!" - I guess you had to be there!
I can appreciate the bemusement of someone not originally from the UK! I went to the pantomime every year as a kid, it installed in me my love of theatre and now I'm delighted to take my little niece every Christmas, it's one of 'our things', can't wait for this year. Really, you have to be there to appreciate it, I can be a grumpy sod at times but you'd better BELIEVE I'll be shouting out loud with everyone else! Yes, I'm an awesome uncle... ;o)
Pantomime, is like live football, it's totally different to watch in the ground/venue than watching it on telly. Being there is always much much better. The audience makes it.
That's a very good analogy.
Hi, Alanna, I enjoyed that I've never been a fan of pantomimes but that was fun. When we saw the first panto I thought we'd slipped into an Alanna cooking video.
I think best pantos should be a mixture for children and adults at the same time. Hope you do more like this.
Thanks so much Stephen!
It works on both levels. The children won't notice innuendo where it occurs, if it occurs; adults will.
It's just a daft over the top traditional Christmas entertainment.
They are actually adult pantos that are very popular now. I like how it's interactive normally in a theatre you stay quiet but with pantos you basically get to almost heckle the bad guy
Panto is a very British institution, when you’re a kid it’s silly, entertaining and a lot of fun, but there is a lot of innuendo that completely goes over a child’s head and only adults will get. We go every year (except last year of course..!) to our local one. I can’t wait to go back this year with my niece and nephew, seeing it through their eyes is wonderful.
Pantomime is a great British tradition - the leading boy is played by a girl, the ugly old woman is played by a man, there's plenty of thigh-slapping, jokes for the kids, jokes for the adults... for a lot of children it might also be their first introduction to theatre. It's for kids, it's for parents, it's for people who want to be kids again. It's full of audience participation and interaction like "He's behind you!" and "Oh yes he is!" "Oh no he isn't!". Often the productions will revive old vaudeville comedy routines which the children might not have seen before and the adults will be very familiar with. The clip with Paul Merton / Neil Morrisey / Adrian Edmondson was from a series of pantomimes made by ITV which were broadcast on tv, full of all-star casts. I think they did one a year for four or five years.
They’re so strange! My sister got a new job in the Grand Opera house in Belfast, so she has to watch pantomimes all the time right now! When I was young I was always terrified that I would be brought on stage, audience participation is my nightmare!! I hadn’t thought about what someone from another country would think of a pantomime! It was a really good idea for a video! It was really funny!
Thanks so much!
Ah, that 90's one had Paul Merton reading and the actors were sitcom stars, the dame was Ade Edmondson, so it was a pro job for telly😉
Brilliant panto . I loved Julie Walters as the fairy god mother
Noticed Neil Morissey of Men Behaving Badly fame too
@@lloroshastar6347 ah yes I forgot his name it's been so long
@@lloroshastar6347 Oh no he wasn't. He was Bob The Builder.
@@frankf5486 He was that too, but I see what you did there
Hi Alanna ,Panto is entertainment for all of the family, one just has to sit back,relax while you can( not for long though )until the show begins and then enjoy the silliness of it and watch the children laughing and shouting at the characters,there you go,that is it.panto cannot under any circumstances be taken seriously.cheers.Roly 🇬🇧.
A panto is definitely an acquired taste. Some can be pretty good, and having the likes of Paul Merton, Neil Morrisey and Ade Edmondson on the last of those three you checked out certainly helps. Our local one usually strives for a big 'name' as a lead, fails miserably and ends up with someone who was in one episode of Hollyoaks, yet somehow it still gets big audiences. I think you'll need to drag along some kids to get the best of it though, and be ready to throw yourself into the audience participation bits if you're really going to try out the full effect Alanna!
I think part of it, is seeing famous celebrities making fools of themselves in ridiculous roles, like soap stars, pop singers. David Hasselhoff once played Captain Hook in a British Panto.
Pantos are big over here in Ireland too. Cringe Jedward once starred in one of them lol
Yeah I went to one as a cub scout. It was Snow White and had Mark Little aka Joe Mangle from Neighbours in it.
Serious answer: who’s it for - all the family.
Please go see one: shout out “he’s behind you”, laugh at The Dame, sing along to the songs.
What a stellar cast in the last one. Watch ‘Bottom’ or ‘The Young Ones’, with Ade Edmondson, who plays Jack’s mum, and the great Neil Morrisey, from ‘Men Behaving Badly’ as Jack. I can see you already recognised Paul Merton.
Panto is so different wherever in the UK you go. The ones at the theatres in Nottingham are really good. They can be enjoyed by all ages, if you give in to the "cringe"/silly factor as you get older.
Last panto I went to as a 10 year old was in nottingham some 60 years ago! Stars were Jewel and Warris, Who? I can imagine you saying.
Panto is generally for children but with something to keep the adult escorts happy! love the jumper, have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year!
Thanks for watching!
You're Rock'in in that Christmas jumper. Cannot wait to see what you'll wear next week.😉 🎄 ☃️
My mum was a wardrobe mistress for the local theatre and she worked during the pantomime season, Snow white and seven dwarves featuring Lenny the lion as buttons and Denise Nolan from the Nolan sisters as Snow white.
The dwarves drank my dad under the table during an after show party.
The family will never let him live that down.
OMG. Lenny the Lion. I haven't heard of Lenny the Lion and Kevin the Kitten since I was in the infants.
I could be wrong but i believe that Panto may be the inspiration for many Drag Queen and Drag King shows as well. I'm Canadian and although I have not been to many of either I would say it's the quirks and audience interaction that is supposed to be good silly fun.
Its abit fun for all ages to understand them you need to see one live and join in with the crowd
Look out, Alanna. It's behind you lol.
Watching a Panto on TV at home would be like being at home watching people in a pub on tv and then wondering why you're not having as much fun. You need to be there, participation is the key.
It's an introduction to theatre, for children. You can't appreciate panto as an adult, if you haven't appreciated it as a child.
As a child, I loved the experience of being 'taken to the theatre'. I loved the costumes, backdrops, silliness, familiarity of the story - Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Dick Whittington et all - and I escaped into the whole experience, joining in - booing, hissing "Oh, no you can't!" - and it was exciting!
For adults, in the UK, they remember that feeling and remember the 'in jokes' - "When I nod my head, hit it!" - and anticipate the hilarity of their children.
Of course, there is coarse humour for the adults, which flies over children's heads, but it's for the children.
Let's face it, few adults would be excited by fun-fairs, but we can all remember the excitement of them, as children and so, we take our children. How many adults want to see the latest Disney Cartoon? Yet, we take our children.
And if you can't be silly; join in the singing and enjoy the joy of your children/nephews/nieces on a 'special occasion', that's sad.
Would I go to a panto, fun-fair, Disney cartoon, or circus now? Hell, no! But, the next generation is almost ready!
you need to go and see it live and take part its the only way its not the same on tv we go most years even now when the kids have grown up, its still fun
Pantomime is the best! Thank you for introducing us to your quaint Canado-British customs.
I was having a miserable day then I remembered it was Tuesday! Thanks for cheering me up Alanna!
Happy to help!
For me its the interaction between the audiance and the light hearted actors who dont take it to serious.
I stayed thru this because l adore you , l actually enjoyed this , thank you. How is it that you get more beautiful with every post ? Is there a portrait of you aging in an attic somewhere? All kidding aside l love your posts , hoping you make a few Christmas posts.
In a nutshell, Pantomime is primarily for children, with some subtle innuendo to keep the adults interested. It also relies heavily on audience participation. Great fun if you're an adult with children to take along, and most importantly, it's a great introduction for children to live theatre.
Panto is basically the same as Monty Python: It is fundamentally just silly ideas. But it is written by clever people, so it can't help help being inadvertently sophisticated at times. But as at its core it is just silly.
So it is basically for kids but let's face it, all kids are accompanied by adults, so it is for adults too.
Hey Alanna, great video. I haven't been to a panto in ages but they can be a lot of fun specially if they have a good cast & are well written. Also they are better experienced live so you should give a panto a try at least once. Alternatively how about you and the Butler do an A&N pantomime this year from Naps HQ kitchen. 😀.
On a side note just at the perfect moment in the video when you said "Right, lets take a look at a second Pantomime" YT cut to a Promo for the new Bond film. For one moment I was very confused, "James Bond doing a panto" I thought, now that would be different. 😊
😂 thanks Howard!
It’s definitely for kids but there’s always something that makes parents love it. That humour for the adults that goes over the kids head is what make it for everyone
Pantomime is made by audience participation, it has to be experienced in the flesh to understand what it is about. And the first two examples you showed us are not good examples unfortunately.
Thanks anyway for trying.
OK you reply has me thinking that perhaps the US American analog is the Rocky horror picture show.
@@NewCastleIndiana It's sort of similar... The rocky horror show is also British and we very much still have it here.
Great Christmas jumper, I used to have a Vault-Tec bunker.
Thanks!
There is a tradition in theatre that at the end of a long run, one day in the last week the actors then take the piss out of the production and ad lib in part. That would be fun to watch.
I don't know what was funnier - the ridiculousness of the panto or seeing a Canadian react to it :'D
You really do need to go see one in person though - it's all about the experience and the audience participation!
The last one was funny. I didn't get the others. I love your jumper.
Thanks for watching!
My first panto was in about 1963/4 very hazy memories starring Helen Shapiro all I can remember was she sang one of her hits sitting on a silver crescent moon! It may have been Cinderella but who knows? Very broad and very British!
In that last one we’re Paul Merton, Neil Morrisey, Ade Edmonton - all famous from the telly.
I’m going to panto over Christmas! The quality of Panto definitely differs from theatre to theatre. The one we go to at Colchester is normally really good. It’s enjoyable or both kids and adults. I think though, you kind’ve get the best out of a panto as an adult if you go with children. It’ll be my youngest’s first panto, so looking forward to seeing him enjoy it. A lot of it is clowning. Some of the music though in pantos are really good. Just got to let yourself be silly to enjoy it i guess, but definitely helps if you go with kids, not sure why that is, but it is!
Canterbury Marlowe theatre does an amazing big pantomime every Christmas to January time I would definitely recommend !
I don't yet get panto but I do understand the appeal.
As a kid growing up in the Chicago area we would go to a performance of The Nutcracker and/or A Christmas Carol every year. Tradition, Family, and Fun seem to be the theme for all of it.
Pantomime is a mix of Comedia dell'arte, Harlequinade and old style Music Hall theatre where the audience is encouraged to join in and be part of the occasion. Basically it's just a silly, fun night out.
Alanna, really the only way to appreciate what panto is about is to go and see one live. You miss so much just watching a video, and I think some of that feeling carries forward with you when you later see them on video- but live is the best way. You get a feeling of involvement that is different to other art forms.
If you know anyone with kids then tag along with them- that's also part of the experience and enjoyment. Or offer to take the kids for them- give them a rest as a Christmas present! You'll see things through different eyes by seeing a Panto live and with involvement of kids. And It'll save you any embarrassment of going as adults too!
Go on, you know you want to. Oh yes you do!
Hey Alanna, glad you got to take a look at this very British thing. Panto is definitely a unique and acquired taste that, IMO only really works as a live experience. A screen simply can't capture it, like being at a live concert. There's also a lot of not very good panto, that feature a very old, dated style of humour. The ones you watched seem a bit like that. Yet, there are some really fantastic ones out there and that last one had a big cast of well known faces that can actually act.
If anything you'v e got to see it live, it can be a blast
It's definitely part of the fun as an adult watching the kids having no idea what they're laughing at. Agree with others - you have to see one live. Oh yes, you do!
O h no you don't!
For me Panto is a family event at the theater (I my self have never been) but have watched many on TV. The best being quite old ones with the like of Roy Hood
I was always non-plus about pants until I took the kids. We go to the Marlowe, Canterbury and they have been great.
Alanna's facial expressions are so funny 🤣. Thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Omg yes! I was literally just thinking about this and wondering if I should go to a pantomime show.
Go along and see a live panto or six! Some can really make your chuckle muscles hurt🤣
There’s usually mention of local towns, shops etc. in the script.
Even Henry ‘The Fonz’ Winkler from ‘Happy Days’ has done a pantomime or two - we’ve had a few celebrities from across “The Pond” and elsewhere star in our pantos.
It’s all done in the best possible taste! 😉
Enjoy a night out, with or without kids!
Pantomime is older than it looks. It goes back to the Commedia del Arte tradition of renaissance Italy. That made it to England fairly early, England being very much under the influence of Italy in those days. At least one Commedia del Arte play has survived-- Gl'Ingannati "The Deceived". Shakespeare is thought to have known that play. (And maybe others). Over time, the semi-improvised style of Italian comedy that Shakespeare knew, morphed into Pantomime. It's uniquely English, now.
It's just a bit of family fun to take the kids to while the cooking is getting done or presents got wrapped or just to get out and have a break
Hay sweetie, he's behind you, oh no he isn't! ✌️🌹🇨🇦👍🦌, greetings from Glezga.
It's aimed at children but they can't go on their own so the adults have to go with them. The innuendos are for them. Otherwise they'd probably throw cabbages and eggs.
I am well into my Sixties. I was taken as a kid to Robin Hood with Roy Castle. I remember laughing out loud and being the only one in the audience who laughed at that moment and Roy Castle turning to the audience and thanking me. Did I understand all the jokes? Probably not. But clearly it was memorable.
Pantomime is for all ages, for the kids it’s slapstick & corny jokes, for the adults it’s partly about enjoying the kids’ delight, but a good panto will also have a lot of humour that goes way over the heads of most younger kids - the really top ones will combine the two genres in the same show. I watched a number as a young child, either with my parents, but also on schooll outings where the class would be taken to one shortly before the end of term before Christmas. I’ve also been to a few as an adult and indeed performed in a couple too when I lived in the Middle East and pantos were put on for kids attending local schools (mainly from the UK), often with some of the gags aimed at adults/parents present commenting on local events, for the kids the jokes were the usual slapstick and gags. Great fun for all.
One of your fellow Canadians on itv noo 'Catchphrase' shine on, Greetings from Scotland 🌹✌️☀️Ps Katherine Ryan
That last one literally brings me back to my childhood they showed this one along with Cinderella, Aladdin and dick Whittington on itv2 every Christmas until recently the one you saw also had Julie Walters in it as the good fairy
Hey yourself to the Marlowe in Canterbury and see it for real. There's usually a huge amount of audience participation it's for the family some jokes for the kids some for the grown ups
haha love your jumper Alanna! : D
Thank you!! 😁
If you didn't grow up in a culture that embraced pantomime it maybe hard to appreciate that style of humor, but there is no denying these performers are extremely talented and dedicated to their craft...
I love Panto, but that first one was dire.
You can tell by the one’s shown that they’ve gone down hill over the years, the last one looking like it’s the only one worth watching and it’s over 20yrs old.
Parents & grandparents took my sister & me to Peter Pan in Blackpool one year in the early to mid 90s, I have absolutely no memory of who was in it!
I also grew up without a pantomime, in Mozambique but now living I Ireland, I can't imagine Christmas without a panto
I haven't been to a panto since I was a bairn and I loved them back then. I wouldn't dream of going to one as an adult unless to take a bairn along.
Blimey! Paul Merton, Adrian Edmondson, Neil Morrisey, looks like more of a star cast in that final one...
The last one was good because it had good stars and they'd only work in it if the script was going to be good. That's the main thing that separates the good and bad pantos - the scripts. Your small local theatre is likely not going to be great, If you go to one in the Palladium in London, it's probably going to be wonderful. You're only going to understand if you go to see and experience one yourself. Pick a reasonably good theatre with a reasonably good cast. The Marlowe in Canterbury is probably a safe bet.
A good place to start is the ITV Pantos that we're broadcast on TV about twenty years ago; they're all on RUclips and star a host of *at the time) famous British comedians and actors. Aladdin with Ed Byrne is the best.
When we were kids we looked forward to sweets being thrown out by the cast, health & safety put a stop to that pleasure! Went to see "The Show that goes wrong", honestly Alanna if you get the chance go see it, it's hilarious.
A great show!
You can still throw sweets.
Panto is for the whole family of all ages. Parents take the children and even grandma will join them. They are meant to be over the top and fun. It is a British tradition The last one you watched is what most of them are like. They have celebrities in them. Jack is played by Neil Morrissey, his mum Adrian Edmondson and narrated by Paul Merton. You really have to be there in person to really get it. The adults join in with the children and it's the interaction with the cast and the audience that really makes it fun. It's also an introduction to theatre for the children.
There’s a lot of Breaking the fourth wall going on. Interesting. As a long time expat in China I can tell you that pantomime is hugely popular there. . During the Chinese New Year holidays this is the most watched type of entertainment. There are huge productions on local and National TV and I think the entire country is tuned in. Fun video! I’d describe Panto as a comedic play where the players interact with each other while playing to the audience as if the audience members were co-conspirators in the effort to keep themselves entertained.
You need to go sweetie it's very different, the audience participation and interaction is awesome, hubby and I went every year with no kids, until covid took our friend who starred in them xx
Behind you! Behind you! Oh no they're not! Oh yes they are! Gilly, Gilly, Ossenfeffer, Katzenellen By The Sea... That's about it really.
I've never seen one, but it looks like - A panto is something which needs to be watched under the influence of something very strong … 😂 You were rocking that Christmas sweater Alanna🎄
Good point!
Jim davisons Cinderella .is a must watch 🤣🤣🤣
The main "adult" panto I know of is "Sinderella" with Jim Davidson.
Panto during the daytime usually omits a lot of the adult jokes, especially if there's primary schools attending. Each theatre and thespian group will do panto differently, but there's usually quite a lot of comic improv thrown in with the script for various reasons. (for instance, if somebody has a quick change they need to do before appearing on stage again then sometimes they might be a little late so everyone on stage will draw out time and make light of it).
Daytime performances are very child-friendly, but if you go see one in the evening that's probably directed more toward the adult jokes (but done in a way that the young kids won't realise what is being said) lol.
Slapstick and innuendo and the best thing about panto that let it be enjoyed by both adults and children. Have you watched any Carry On films? These are littered with double entendres and saucy family friendly humour.
Well done, loved your reaction 😁. I hate panto more than mince pies, seriously. But you still warmed up my chilly Tuesday 👋
Thanks for watching!
"2 from the top and 1 from the bottom ,please Carol" A sexual reference to the game show Countdown
Panto was always something parents would take their kids to. The kids would be there for all the HE'S BEHIND YOU and the mums and dads would be in it for the jokes. And panto is important for theatres still. It is the big money maker of the year. Some theatres have 2 shows daily for the whole of December, sometimes 3 on weekends. The revenue keeps the theatre's running for the rest of the year. So they throw money at the production and try to get recognisable faces in the show too, like Paul Merton in your clip. It's also a big earner for those celebs we have fond memories of who might not get much other work.
I would describe a panto by saying it fun and laughs for all the family and a great Christmas tradition
I would discribed a panto as Camp-Cringe. It reminds me of reruns of 70's TV shows.
In all honesty, if you love panto, going to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show live at the theatre is basically a (very) adult panto. There are many interactions learned and used by old fans. Sadly, like sweets thrown at the kids, there are some that you can't do in the theatre all the time but there are always alternatives!
I highly recommend if you are a fan of the film
Pantomime usually have two versions . On a daytime matinée version it will be mainly children . The evening matinée will be much risqué. Silliness is the byword .x