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Behind you! Today's Panto Day 2025... oh yes it is!

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December 12, 2025

We know what you're thinking.

Behind you! Today's Panto Day 2025... oh yes it is!

It can’t be Panto Day already. But... oh yes it is!

We're already well into pantomime season of course, but December 12 marks a point where there are just a couple of weekends to go before Christmas.

So today is a day to celebrate that most British of festive theatrical traditions.

The theme for 2025 is Year of Transformation - from pumpkins to carriages and beans to beanstalks, not forgetting the transformative power of pantomime and marvellous magic of makeup, panto is truly the UK's favourite artform.

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