... answer to Valentino's prayers. “It's a sort of commedia dell'arte acted out in full sunshine,” he says, pointing out the harlequinade of vivid colours created by the citrus fruits in the almost black foliage of the orange and lemon trees. ...

... Design; 15 Guinea; 17 Jimmy Connors; 20 Orion; 21 Audubon; 22 Mastodon; 23 Swat. Down: 1 Mike Todd; 2 Cable; 4 ' Aikido; 5 Harlequinade; 6 Lincoln; 7 Thor; 8 Risorgimento; 12 Massenet; 14 Spirits; 16 Octavo; 18 Oxbow; 19 Doom. imumumEm6 Pa MELIA • • • IN ...

... including the Boneshaker Brothers Skeleton Circus, the first to appear at the Guildhall. That is followed by Clown Joey's Harlequinade - described as a puppetorium pantomime - and The Prof’s Punch and Judy Show. Tickets for each show are £3.50. They are ...

... in-jokes. The Harlequinade became an anglicised version of the Commedia with its cast of stock characters and young lovers. Pulcinella now exists as Mr Punch, the hook nosed puppet. From the l.Sti:.century the crowds were drawn by the Harlequinade’s slapstick ...

... certainly supported by even wealthier patrons who considered it an honour to do so. Louis XIII even ennobled some of them. The Harlequinade was the earliest pantomime performed and was peopled by such characters as Harlequin himself who was a personification ...

... Perhaps this is because the twoman horse does not seem to have been part of the 18th-century, cornmedia del'arte-inspired harlequinades. It was for these London theatre shows that the word 'pantomime' was first used, in 1716. A typically Georgian evocation ...

... HJ Byron , were once as new as the elements we have seen introduced today and were resisted by those who regarded the Harlequinades of John Ride and Joseph Grimaldi as the definitive tradition . Pantomime , like all theatrical forms , owes its continued ...

... out in sharp, unsentimental terms - he’s an awkward, - arrogant, cantankerous, loveable cat, “an enormous lordly beast, a harlequinade of black and white”, who, - after developing bone cancer in his old age, suffers the - indignity of becoming a three-leggedcat ...

... James , both of whom went into showbusiness . Crowther wrote most of the scripts for Clown shows , notably Clownerella , Harlequinade , a clown version of Alice in Wonderland and Grimaldi – King of Clowns , which was staged at the Edinburgh Festival in ...

... something of an institution with actors specialising in the genre and becoming rich and famous as a consequence. W The Harlequinade, as it had developed, was again a stylised entertainment which included several obligatory characters old traditions concerning ...

... and Naunton Wayne. The year 1948 saw him pre sent Playbill (Phoenix Theatre), Rattigan's two-hander which con sisted of Harlequinade and The Browning Version, with a cast led by Eric Portman who gave a bravura performance in the latter as Crocker-Harris ...

... ent . For some , ‘ new meant alternatives to the old downmarket fare of burlettas , ‘ pocket , animal acts , farces , harlequinades and cacophonous extravaganzas . Theatrical improvers like Charles Kean and Kemble worked to raise standards , such as greater ...