Pantomimes are plays based on a well-known story — often a fairy tale — which are given a bawdy twist. The audience is ...

Watching Window Twankey or Dame Trott making veiled innuendos in a room with screaming toddlers is a staple of British family life. We all remember yelling ‘he’s behind you’ at a pantomime dame when ...

Scottish comedy legend Johnny McKnight examines the panto dame through an inventive new lens in She’s Behind You. Drawing on his experience writing more than 30 pantos and playing 18 dames, McKnight ...

I don’t much like panto. Sorry. But there it is. So the thought of a late-ish evening at the end of a long day tracing the history of the pantomime dame didn’t fill me with joy. But this glorious, ...