How to Write a Pantomime

How to Write a Pantomime
Author: Lesley Cookman
Publsiher: Accent Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781907726026

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There are thousands of pantomimes staged throughout the world every year, most of them in Britain. Most groups, whether they be amateur drama societies, schools, Women's Institutes or Village Hall committees are constantly on the lookout for something fresh and original. This is often a matter of economics, as professional pantomimes can be costly in terms of performing rights, let alone the cost of scripts. This book is aimed at those people who take part in this increasingly popular hobby, and at the writer who wishes to write a pantomime, either for a local group, or, indeed, for mass publication.

Writing a Pantomime

Writing a Pantomime
Author: Lesley Cookman
Publsiher: How To Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Pantomime (Christmas entertainment)
ISBN: 1857032497

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New Theatre Quarterly 51 Volume 13 Part 3

New Theatre Quarterly 51  Volume 13  Part 3
Author: Clive Barker,Simon Trussler
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 1997-11-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0521597285

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Provides an international forum where theatrical scholarship and practice can meet to question dramatic assumptions.

Creating Pantomime

Creating Pantomime
Author: Joyce Branagh,Keith Orton
Publsiher: Crowood Press (UK)
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1847972551

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Pantomime is a much-loved institution, but how is it created? What tools and processes are used? Working from purely a title, this practical book explains how a script and a design can develop together through the creative processes to culminate in the wonder and excitement of a unique production on opening night. * Explains how to get started in writing and designing an original pantomime * Uses major professional productions to illustrate established techniques and new innovations * Examines pantomime traditions and scene structure and how these can be utilized in productions today * Describes how staging design can influence the narrative * Looks at how pantomime characters develop through their costume * Explores the tricks and magic essential to pantomime Shows visuals from a range of production from small regional through to large commercial pantomimes AUTHOR: Joyce Branagh has been directing professionally since 1994. Her work ranges from Shakespeare to new plays at theatres throughout the UK and Ireland. She has directed successful pantomimes at Watford Palace Theatre for several years, either developing the script closely with the writer or being the principal writer. Keith Orton has worked as a professional designer since 1991, as well as tutoring at Central School of Speech and Drama. Recently he has specialized in pantomime design working with Joyce Branagh exclusively. He has a particular interest in how design can help and influence the development of new writing. ILLUSTRATIONS: 180 colour photographs *

Pantomime

Pantomime
Author: Karl Toepfer
Publsiher: Vosuri Media
Total Pages: 1320
Release: 2019-08-19
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781733249737

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This book offers perhaps the most comprehensive history of pantomime ever written. No other book so thoroughly examines the varieties of pantomimic performance from the early Roman Empire, when the term “pantomime” came into use, until the present. After thoroughly examining the complexities and startlingly imaginative performance strategies of Roman pantomime, the author identifies the peculiar political circumstances that revived and shaped pantomime in France and Austria in the eighteenth century, leading to the Pierrot obsession in the nineteenth century. Modernist aesthetics awakened a huge, highly diverse fascination with pantomime. The book explores an extraordinary variety of modernist and postmodern approaches to pantomime in Germany, Austria, France, numerous countries of Eastern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, Spain, Belgium, The Netherlands, Chile, England, and The United States. Making use of many performance and historical documents never before included in pantomime histories, the book also discusses pantomime’s messy relation to dance, its peculiar uses of music, its “modernization” through silent film aesthetics, and the extent to which writers, performers, or directors are “authors” of pantomimes. Just as importantly, the book explains why, more than any other performance medium, pantomime allows the spectator to see the body as the agent of narrative action.

The Pantomime Book

The Pantomime Book
Author: Paul Harris,Roy Hudd
Publsiher: Peter Owen Publishers
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2001
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0720611466

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Comedian and actor Paul Harris has brought together an hilarious collection of theatrical material, much of it originating in Victorian times and refined and updated in many pantomime productions since.

New Directions in Ancient Pantomime

New Directions in Ancient Pantomime
Author: Edith Hall,Rosie Wyles
Publsiher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2008-11-20
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780191552571

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This is the first comprehensive and illustrated study of the most important form of theatre in the entire Roman Empire - pantomime, the ancient equivalent of ballet dancing. Performed for more than five centuries in hundreds of theatres from Portugal in the West to the Euphrates, from Gaul to North Africa, solo male dancing stars - the forerunners of Nijinsky, Nureyev, and Baryshnikov - stunned audiences with their erotic costumes, subtlety of gesture, and dazzling athleticism. In sixteen specially commissioned and complementary studies, the leading world specialists explore all aspects of the ancient pantomime dancer's performance skills, popularity, and social impact, while paying special attention to the texts that formed the basis of this distinctive art form.

The Golden Age of Pantomime

The Golden Age of Pantomime
Author: Jeffrey Richards
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2014-10-23
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780857724724

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Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s, that a visit to the pantomime constitutes the first theatrical experience of most children and now, as then, a successful pantomime season is the key to the financial health of most theatres. Everyone went to the pantomime, from Queen Victoria and the royal family to the humblest of her subjects. It appealed equally to West End and East End, to London and the provinces, to both sexes and all ages. Many Victorian luminaries were devotees of the pantomime, notably among them John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Lewis Carroll and W.E. Gladstone. In this vivid and evocative account of the Victorian pantomime, Jeffrey Richards examines the potent combination of slapstick, spectacle and subversion that ensured the enduring popularity of the form. The secret of its success, he argues, was its continual evolution. It acted as an accurate cultural barometer of its times, directly reflecting current attitudes, beliefs and preoccupations, and it kept up a flow of instantly recognisable topical allusions to political rows, fashion fads, technological triumphs, wars and revolutions, and society scandals. Richards assesses throughout the contribution of writers, producers, designers and stars to the success of the pantomime in its golden age. This book is a treat as rich and appetizing as turkey, mince pies and plum pudding.