• Panto's Progress

  • Mar 16 2022
  • Length: 36 mins
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Panto's Progress

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  • Kate Newey and Jim Davis are back talking about Pantomime as a rough demotic physical performance form that developed from Commedia dell’arte and defied censorship. They discuss panto as a profitable industry that continues to adapt and reflect its age and what that has meant over the last few hundred years.

     

    Plays, people and performance forms named in this podcast: 


    • 16/18th century performance form: Commedia dell’arte 
    • Pantomime clown: Joseph Grimaldi
    • Actor/Manager: John Rich
    • Actor/Manager: David Garrick
    • Actor/Manager: Augustus Harris
    • Music Hall Comedian & Pantomime Dame: Dan Leno
    • Actor/Manager: Eliza Vestris
    • Recent Pantomime Dame & Pantomime Writer: Chris Harris, Bath Theatre Royal
    • Recent Pantomime Dame: Clive Rowe, Hackney Empire
    • Interview: Kate Newey speaking to Chris Harris & Clive Rowe
    • Actor-Acrobat/Manager: George Conquest


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    Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.


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