Mime involves silence -

Pantomime is an old British tradition - girl plays lead male role, male plays female 'baddie' role, etc - Wikipedia omits Australia - now fixed.... Bloody Ignorant Yanks! :-P

Wikipedia ->
Pantomime (informally, panto), not to be confused with a mime artist, referring to a theatrical performer of mime, is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in the United Kingdom, Canada, Jamaica, South Africa, Japan, India, Ireland, Gibraltar and Malta, and is mostly performed during the Christmas and New Year season.[1] The word derives from the Greek "παντόμιμος" (pantomimos), "pantomimic actor"[2] and that from "παντός" (pantos), genitive of "πᾶς" (