British panto production blends holiday tradition with Muslim culture and humor
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | We end this holiday week with a very British tradition, pantomime, but with a modern twist. |
| 0:06.0 | For those less familiar, a pantomime or Panto is a family holiday comedy show filled with fairy tales, music, slapstick, and audience participation. |
| 0:15.5 | And it's a seasonal staple across the UK. |
| 0:18.6 | This year, one production is selling out. |
| 0:21.5 | It's a retelling of the fairy tale Snow White that blends classic Panto with Muslim |
| 0:26.5 | culture and humor and even teases at its online trolls. |
| 0:30.8 | From Britain, Minnie Stevenson of the Independent Television News brings us this story. |
| 0:37.6 | Off! television news brings us this story. Ah, |
| 0:41.8 | fuck! |
| 0:42.6 | They were all these disgusting people. |
| 0:49.8 | Tis the season of glitter, |
| 0:51.8 | goodwill and glorious panto, |
| 0:53.9 | where the jokes are loud and the costumes are even louder. |
| 0:57.0 | Introducing the Muslim Panto, Snow Brown and her seven uncles or Chacha in Urdu. |
| 1:06.0 | A fairy tale flipped and served with enough one-liners to derail even the grumpiest uncle. |
| 1:11.6 | Snowbrow coming here, taking out pantomite, goes back to Islamistan. |
| 1:18.6 | I'm so glad I'm in this role and having the previous shows, honestly, I started tearing up at one point because the little girls were running up to me and they looked like me and I looked like them and they were like your hijab oh my god you look like me I have your name |
| 1:31.4 | and it's just really heartwarming to see and be that representation I wish I would have had when we |
| 1:36.0 | grew up we just want everyone to enjoy the fun and you don't have to be Muslim to come and watch it |
| 1:40.1 | its creator abdullah a vassal is on a mission to spread Muslim joy in the festive season. |
| 1:45.0 | From Glasgow to Notting Hill, across 11 cities, the Muslim Panto has sold over 24,000 tickets. |
| 1:54.0 | When it comes to Pantam, it's a British institution. |
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