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FIRST AMATEUR PERFORMANCE OF “PLAYBILL” Terence Rattigan’s brilliant double act “ Playbill” was given its first ..

... outstanding study of a broken schoolmaster. Unfortunately others in the cast were not so good. Nora Manning produced. “Harlequinade,” a funny farce, went at a grand pace, providing a laugh per second, with E. Stanton overacting magnificently as. an ageing ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1950
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 116 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Early pantomime

... Pantomime, like so many other sequences grew longer and longer, and traditional English entertainments, also finally the Harlequinade disappeared has its connections with ancient Greece altogether. Fairy Tales and popular and Rome. The word pantomime legends ...

Published: Friday 12 January 1962
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

SUNDAY TV & RADIO

... up for dramatic stretch of service in the hanker, of America s nuclear bombing force News. 10.13 Sunday Night Theatre: Harlequinade, by Terence Rattigan with Denholm Elliott, Joyce Redman, John Castle and Edith Evans. Theatrical family put on Romeo and ...

Published: Saturday 28 April 1973
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 343 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MIME

... carpet conveniently tied to her roval feet, a sketch which wittily alluded to the Lord of Misrule theme again, and a brisk Harlequinade based on a Pollock’s Toy Theatre script, which revived the genuine flavour of the Victorian pantomime. ...

Published: Friday 20 December 1974
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 98 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

VIVID MIME

... VIVID MIME A harlequinade threaded its way through the main story. in the characters ol Harlequin, Columbine and Pantalone. three * puppets * whom Pinocchio encourages to manage without their strings. The mime. movement and dancing in this production ...

Published: Friday 23 December 1966
Newspaper: Stratford-upon-Avon Herald
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 106 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... theatre DINNER Theatre is the latest innovation of the Barford Drama Group. Two one act filays, Pinter’s Silence and attigan's Harlequinade, a light heated romp, full of character comedy, parodyl:;fi the theatre itself, are follow by supper. Taking place at Barford ...

Published: Friday 03 July 1987
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 89 | Page: 68 | Tags: none

NAPS AND DOUBLES

... NAPS AND DOUBLES REG MACKINNON (Evening el ph): Pandora Bay. EPSOM BOY (Evening Teleraph): Raymond*, Harlequinade. AUGUR (Sporting Life): The Inn, Regal Trial. KETTLEDRUM (Sporting throttle): Ernestine. Kedge. SCOUT (Daily Express): Arrival. trectory ...

Published: Friday 21 July 1967
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 40 | Tags: none

'“ '4J--’aativrtNHl SUNDAY MERCUR SPECIAL given life for present from pantomime seen by desienerJohn Fraser the ..

... chill and if the characters were really getting into trouble — like the Babes to die they all changed into the characters Harlequinade” Panto perfect vehicle for swipe at politics and politicians One of - Victorian Scripts unearthed Mr Brown contained about ...

Published: Sunday 03 December 1978
Newspaper: Birmingham Weekly Mercury
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 734 | Page: 73 | Tags: none

GEORGE WOOD

... Babes in the Wood, with emphasis on the Robin Hood angle of the story. All the traditional psinti‘mime scenes, including u harlequinade, will be in it, and Nottingham Goose Fair will be erected on the stage in sight of the audience, with Olsen and Johnson ...

Published: Friday 24 March 1950
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 158 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

`Dick Whittington' Should Be the Cat's Whiskers

... designed the decor, and Laurence Green produces. Harlequinade Special features in the Barbara Gordon-Basil Thomas book include one that is particularly welcome: the return of the traditional Harlequinade. seen so rarely nowadays. Among others area burlesque ...

Published: Friday 11 December 1953
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 522 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

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... PROGRAMME FOR Y.M.C.A. PLAYERS The Y.M.C.A. Players' programme for the first six months of next year will be: The Hollow. Harlequinade. The Young Elizabeth.** and Relative Values. The company will also enter the Y.M.C.A. Drama Festival at Worcester ...

Published: Friday 04 December 1953
Newspaper: Coventry Evening Telegraph
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 169 | Page: 5 | Tags: none