... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... hamstrung by archaic financing , survival forced into downmarket such as burlettas , ‘ pocket , animal acts , farces , harlequinades and extravaganzas of noisy and brash acts – or even as venues for political meetings . It was looking tragic and polite ...

... , he was overjoyed at being invited to return pantomime to Drury Lane in 1929 . It was The Sleeping Beauty – without a harlequinade but with a clown and a prologue . It was a roaring success . His best pantomime , though , was Dick Whittington at the ...

... old actor Godfrey Tearle . Terence Rattigan was also a writer who drew many of his stage characters from reality . His Harlequinade is , yet again , about the backstage Lunts , his Separate Tables - currently being revived at the Jermyn Street Theatre ...

... lies also owned I the Lyceum, with its seemingly never ending pantos. It was i probably the last theatre to feature the Harlequinade as 1 a taster and an endpiece to the main performance. Two hundred yards across Brixton Road was the variety theatre The ...

... and went lo drama school , the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts , in 1983 when she was 16 . In she graduated , formed Harlequinade TC wilh an actor friend and put on a couple of fringe shows . A few well received plays later and she was sel for a career ...

... Later stage work included For Services Rendered and Martine at the National Theatre , Variations on a Theme ( Globe ) , Harlequinade ( Royalty ) , Charley ' s Aunt ( Stratford ) Lent ( Lyric , Hammersmith ) and so much more . She was still touring in her ...

... Woolf and produced some of the most memorable and drama of the . Plays such as Shaw ' s Arms and the Man , Terence ' s Harlequinade and Noel Coward comedy Fallen Angels - Joan Collins and Susannah York - peak audiences and were highly praised by . Under ...