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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

I love panto – it's fun, it's feisty, and it's the only truly British art form

It may reflect this nation's love of broad humour, but panto has some noble antecedents, which include GREEK drama (the word pantomime comes, via Latin, from the GREEK word pantomimos, meaning a dancer who played all the roles or acted out the whole story) and 16th-century commedia dell'arte.


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