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 genre in general. Nevertheless, a most important problem remained unsolved. The problem of a necessary territory for the unobstructed and uninterrupted activities of the Theatre was solved partly. For a theatre that has a repertory and does not have a territory it is extremely difficult to plan further activities. Even not having necessary working conditions, the theatre went on with its triumph: performances, tours, festivals. As a result of researches of roots of Armenian pantomime experiences were realized in order to find new expressive ways of presentation. And one remarkable example of such an experience is especially actor Levon Ivanyan’s