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The complete history of pantomimes and their origins ahead of the festive season

Pantomime

This week, Pantomime fever swept through King’s St Alban’s Drama Club as our brilliant Year 5 pupils performed their very first pantomime “Goldilocks and the Two Bears”! From big characters to even bigger laughs, they delivered a show packed with everything a proper panto needs, catchy songs, larger-than-life acting, and of course the iconic “It’s behind you!” (with plenty of enthusiastic audience participation!). Our young performers have spent weeks creating and shaping the production themselv