It’s a drag – drag queens and pantomime dames in British culture
It’s panto season and the pantomime dames are out in force. The jowlier and less shaven they are, the better- there’s nothing quite as British as the sight of a totally unconvincing ‘Dame’, all stubble and hairy legs under the makeup and gold lamé.
The Pantomime Dame is one of those great English traditions. I suspect Aussie Dame Edna Everage owes much of her glam to this strand of drag. Widow Twankey, in Aladdin, is always a dame – the ugly sisters in Cindarella are often blokes, too.
But London is also seeing an explosion of a rather more thoroughgoing drag style …read more
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