Pantomime at the Lyceum Theatre in 1939. Traditionally performed at Christmas and afterwards, with family audiences, British pantomime continues as a popular form of theatre, incorporating song, dance, buffoonery, slapstick, cross-dressing, in-jokes, topical references, audience participation, and mild sexual innuendo. Pantomime story lines and scripts usually make no direct reference to Christmas, and are almost always based on traditional children's stories, particularly the fairy tales of Charles Perrault, Joseph Jacobs, Hans Christian Andersen and the Grimm Brothers. Some of the most popular pantomime stories include "Cinderella", "Aladdin", "Dick Whittington and His Cat" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", as well
Yerevan State Pantomime Theatre program were included illusionists, living statues and sand painting. In 2016 Yengibaryan International Mime Festival will be held in August. And it will already be organized annually. Yerevan State Pantomime Theatre Yerevan State Pantomime theatre was founded in 1974. The status of the State Theatre received in 1983. Not having own building, theater performances are presented in Yerevan State Youth Theatre, the lease basis. In the summer of 2012, the Municipality of Yerevan, made decision to provide space in North Avenue for the construction of the building for the theatre. A student of Moscow State Institute of Theatre Arts Henrik