King's Theatre Pantomime King's Theatre Pantomime The pantomime at the King's has been running annually since 1971. Before that a few pantomimes were staged from 1964/65 after Glasgow Corporation bought the theatre from Howard & Wyndham Ltd. Pantomime in Scotland has always been popular, particularly in Glasgow, and there has been a long tradition developed from the 1860s. From the 1970s pantomime productions for the King's were funded jointly by the City Councils of Glasgow and Edinburgh and staged in both cities. Stanley Baxter one of Britain's top pantomime dames performed at the King's in the 1980s in Cinderella, written and directed by
Yerevan State Pantomime Theatre Pantomime Theatres arrive in Yerevan from Moscow, Riga, Ljubljana, Ulan-Bator, Tbilisi, Irkutsk. Remarkable specialists of pantomime were invited to Armenia: Ilya Rutberg, Modris Tenisons, Hans Diter Ilgenen, Konstantin Kiriyak and others. In 2008 the theatre organized International Pantomime Festival in Tsaghkadzor, which is taking place every two years, and in 2010 International Pantomime Festival of Thsaghkadzor was named after the great mime Leonid Yengibarov. In 2012 in the scope of International Pantomime Festival the bronze statue of famous artist L. Yengibarov was opened in the central square of Tsaghkadzor. In 2014 was held 4th International Mime Festival and in the