Pantomime!

I've found something I absolutely must do this winter: go see a pantomime!

Despite the name, the English pantomime is more akin to The Rocky Horror Picture Show than the stopped-in-time businessmen and living statues that I saw in Rome last year. Pantomime is a genre with prescribed elements--men dressed as old women, audience participation, innuendo, slapstick humor--using the guise of well known fairytales to bring delight to audiences.

Sleeping Beauty, Aladdin and Peter Pan are just a few in London's theaters this coming year, and I plan to see one (if not more) during the Christmas season.

If you're curious to learn a bit more (and hunt for a reference to a loved English professor from my alma mater), read the wiki entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantomime