In winter in Britain, many children and adults enjoy going to the theatre to watch a pantomime. Pantomimes are a very old form of entertainment, but the modern version is as popular as ever.

Pantomime is often seen as something quaint ... chases and acrobatics From the late 1600s these characters appeared in English comic plays, introduced by the theatre impresario John Rich.

For 43 years crowds of just 60 people have enjoyed Britain's smallest pantomime production. Broadstone Pantomime Productions partner with a local nursing home to keep the company going.

The panto season is still in full swing for the cast and crew of Cinderella who have partnered with a Dorset nursing home to keep the cost of tickets down for local families. Many of the big ...

It is the highest attended pantomime, for the length of run ... and Mayflower Studios – over 100,000 people came to see English National Ballet’s Nutcracker, Elf the Musical, A Very Hungry ...

Pantomime has deep roots, stretching back to the stock characters and bawdy humor of the 16th-century Italian commedia dell’arte and the French harlequinade, as well as the English music hall.

More than 44,700 people attended Sleeping Beauty at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn, which featured legendary panto dame and director Brad Fitt as well as Britain’s Got Talent star Tommy J Rollason.

Enter, stage right, the pantomime villain, soon to land on English, French, Irish and Italian soil to shake the foundations of rugby punditry. Except this is no fictional realm, no pantomime: this is ...