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DANCE: Clowns

... Clowns LINDSAY KEMP LINDSAY KEMP'S Clowns proves a disappointing late-night follow-up to Salome at the Broadway, although the Kemp Clique attending the first night last week seemed to be enchanted at the 40-minute display of self-indul gence. Clowns ...

Published: Thursday 16 June 1977
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 10 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: Clowns

... Clowns Orange Tree Room Christina Reid's helping of droll wit in her two plays about life in the harsh Divis Flats area of west Belfast, places them in the O'Casey tradition. But something almost Chekhovian clings to her characters, surviving through ...

Published: Thursday 04 April 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 290 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: School for Clowns

... big book he selects various chapters for them to play out and the clowns, at every turn, seize on the unwitting pun, making mincemeat of the fraz zled teacher. Called to order, the clowns are ridiculously submissive but only for an instant till they speed ...

Published: Thursday 12 January 1989
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 14 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: 'KINGS AND CLOWNS' AT THE PHOENIX

... 'KINGS AND CLOWNS' AT THE PHOENIX Douglas Blake reviews Opened March I OH HENRY?poor Henry! The things that showbiz has done to you just because you had six wives. And now comes the greatest indignity of them all--Kings and Clowns at the Phoenix. What ...

Published: Thursday 09 March 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 317 | Page: 13 | Tags: theatre review 

Play Reviews: A Thousand Clowns

... A Thousand Clowns SCARBOROUGH CONTINUING its presentation of American comedies for its autumn and winter season, the Stephen Joseph Theatre's presentation of the Herb Gard ner play A Thousand Clowns is a polished and highly professional pro duction ...

Published: Thursday 10 January 1985
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 142 | Page: 11 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: CLOWNS AND COLUMBINES FROM COPENHAGEN

... CLOWNS AND COLUMBINES FROM COPENHAGEN FOR CHRISTMAS Denmark has sent us her famous Panlomimeteater which has been playing for over a hundred summers in the Chinese Pavilion of the gay Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen. Never before have these enchanting dancing ...

Published: Friday 27 December 1957
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 762 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

Theatre Reviews: Paddy the Clown and Little Squirt's Laughter Show

... Paddy the Clown and Little Squirt's Laughter Show Cardiff/Touring Children of all ages packed the Sherman to enjoy almost two hours of fun and hilarity from Paddy the Clown and his best friend, cheeky elephant Little Squirt. High spots included Paddy ...

Published: Thursday 14 November 1996
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 206 | Page: 15 | Tags: theatre review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: Fo a truly modern clown

... Fo a truly modern clown RIVERSIDE Dario Fo CONSISTENTLY left-wing and superbly gifted: Dario Fo has the very ingredients of a truly contemporary A tall, respectable looking man, attractive and distant with his heavy- built Mediterranean elegance offstage ...

Published: Thursday 26 May 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 312 | Page: 24 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: Stars Go Clowning at tlie Winter Garden

... Stars Go Clowning at tlie Winter Garden ALEC GUINNESS, Irene Worth, Mariita Hunt, and other eminent people of the theatre, bring to the nonsense of Hotel Paradiso a kind of inspired comic genius. This by no means implies that the old farce depends solely ...

Published: Thursday 10 May 1956
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 752 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

LONDON THEATRES: 100 STARS ROMP THROUGH THREE- HOUR SHOW

... partnered by Ken Le Roy and George Chakiris. Crazy Gang The crazy clowns the inimit able Crazy Gang-- brought the show to a complete standstill with their ageing debutante number. The singing clowns consisted of Max Bygraves and the outsized Peters Sisters, ...

Published: Thursday 30 July 1959
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 648 | Page: 9 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAYREVIEWS: Jolly people and childish jokes

... dered watching the clowns of Theatro Technis in The St Pancras Circus, would I be forced to concede that I disliked clowns? Well no, not prejudice so much as recognition that when people mock skills they don't possess the point of the clown's calling is missed ...

Published: Thursday 06 September 1984
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 209 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review 

PLAY REVIEWS: Comedy of Errors

... this was a fairly straightforward version of the play, broadly acted with quite a lot of outsize gestures and some physical clowning. Packer, who is British and formerly taught at I.AMDA, is assisted by Kristin Linklater, who is also British and who is a ...

Published: Thursday 22 September 1983
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 214 | Page: 12 | Tags: theatre review