pantomime

[He] saw a pantomime perform so well that he could follow the performance from the action alone.

With the Stoke supporters jeering Ziv's every subsequent touch, the pantomime atmosphere created by the home crowd reached a crescendo when Ziv was shown a straight red shortly after the break in extraordinary circumstances.

A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.