there s hundreds of years of tradition in panto, from audience participation. those folks will believe everything, i tell you. oh, yes, they will! crowd: oh, no, they won t! oh, yes, they will! ..to a host of stock characters. the panto dame is generally a man dressed as a woman, and that allowed men to come out and do really outrageous impersonations of women. it s quite unusual to be a woman playing it i m one of very few allowed to. maybe in the past, women have been forced into being the more glamorous type, and my thing is it s not about whether you re a man or a woman, it is the type of performer you are. if you can break through to the audience, and say, i m about to make a fool of myself here. come with me. couldn t find a petrol station. we ended up wandering
there s hundreds of years of tradition in panto, from audience participation. those folks will believe everything, i tell you. oh, yes, they will! crowd: oh, no, they won t! oh, yes they will! ..to a host of stock characters. the panto dame is generally a man dressed as a woman, and that allowed men to come out and do really outrageous impersonations of women. it s quite unusual to be a woman playing it i m one of very few allowed to. maybe in the past, women have been forced into being the more glamorous type, and my thing is it s not about whether you re a man or a woman, it is the type of performer you are. if you can break through to the audience, and say, i m about to make a fool of myself here. come with me. couldn t find a petrol station. we ended up wandering through this barren, desolate wasteland. where was that?
from audience participation. those folks will believe everything, i tell you. oh, yes, they will! oh, no, they won t! 0h, oh, yes they will! ..to a host of stock characters. the panto dame is generally a man dressed as a woman, and that allowed men to come out and do really outrageous impersonations of women. it s quite unusual to be a woman playing it. i m one of very few allowed to. maybe in the past, women have been forced into being the more glamorous type, and my thing is it s not about whether you re a man or a woman, it is the type of performer you are. if you can break through to the audience, and say, i m about to make a fool of myself here. come with me. couldn t find a petrol station. we ended up wandering through this barren, desolate wasteland. where was that? i think it was paisley.
we re in glasgow, where scotland s premium pantomime dame is treading the boards in her 25th panto season. growling oh, just quit that moaning, will you? it s basically a good night out, which is the most important thing or a good afternoon out full of laughs and joy, sort of hitched on to a traditional fairytale love story. it s usually kids first experience of theatre, so we are the sort of gateway, if you like. there s hundreds of years of tradition in panto, from audience participation. those folks will believe everything, i tell you. oh, yes, they will! crowd: oh, no, they won t! oh, yes they will! ..to a host of stock characters. the panto dame is generally a man dressed as a woman, and that allowed men to come out and do really outrageous impersonations of women.