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Panto's Progress

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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