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News - The 7th Leicestershire 'Salute to Pantomime' will take place on 5th April 2008 at the Winstanley Community College, Braunstone Town. See Salute 7 page for information as it becomes available

News - The Sunday Express had an article about amateur pantomime in their edition of 9th December. It featured the PAL 'Pantomime of the Year' Group the Duckpond Players. see item on News page.

The 'Pantomime of the Year' award for the '6th Salute to Pantomime' event went to the Duckpond Players from Fleckney. Full results on Salute 6 page.

This is the site for Amateur Pantomime Groups wherever they may be. It is intended to be the premier site for amateur pantomimers world-wide, though pantomime being what it is, it is likely to be predominantly British, to start with at least. We would love to hear from pantomime groups in other countries and we will list you on the site as you come forward.
The Pantomime Alliance (TPA for short) brings together amateur groups which perform pantomime, with the objective of promoting and encouraging amateur pantomime in the UK (and beyond if there is a need). Any group can join the Alliance. TPA hosts this site and your group can be featured here, especially if you have a web site of your own which can have a link.

The Pantomime Alliance of Leicestershire
The origin of TPA was The Pantomime Alliance of Leicestershire  (PAL) which was formed to celebrate and promote pantomime amongst amateur groups in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. PAL organised a 'Celebration of Pantomime' event at the Century Theatre at the Snibston Discovery Park, Coalville, Leicestershire in April 2002 when six groups took part.
PAL organised its 6th 'Salute to Pantomime' on 24th March 2007 in Wigston, Leicestershire and will be encouraging even more local groups to take part. Go to the PAL page and the following page links for information about the 7th Salute event.

7th 'Salute to Pantomime' Competition - 2007-2008

The 7th 'Salute to Pantomime' Competition will run through the 2007 - 08 season. The 'Blue Balloon' trophy will be awarded to the pantomime of the year and there will be other categories in the competition as in previous years. The 'Salute to Pantomime' awards will be presented at the Winstanley Community College, Bruanstone Town, Leicestershire, on Saturday 5th April 2008.  See the Salute 7 page for the arrangements as they are available.

Groups
Amateur pantomime groups across the Country are listed on the Groups pages. If you would like your group to be included please contact david.pollard@virgin.net  If your group has a web site please think about adding a link to this site from your own. The more people who learn about pantomime the better. If your Group is interested in organising a pantomime competition PAL will be pleased to give you all the assistance it can. Contact david.pollard@virgin.net for information. It would be very exciting if we could raise the 'Salute to Pantomime' competition and event to a national level.

This Season
Every pantomime season we will try to put up a list of performances. If you provide us with details of the dates, times venues, title of your pantomime and who to contact for tickets then we will include them. Many amateur pantomimes are generally sold out, but people around the country may want to know what you are up to this year. Contact again is david.pollard@virgin.net

Links
On the Links page are contacts to other organisations, authors, costumiers etc relevant to pantomimes. Also there are links to sites listing the activities of professional pantomime performances, artists etc

Pantomime webring - this site is a member of the Pantomime Webring. To view other sites in the Web Ring go to the ECUMANIACS Website or click on the Web Ring logo below

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