British Pantomime Performance

Name: British Pantomime Performance
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ISBN: 9781841501741

ISBN-10: 1841501743

ISBN-13: 9781841501741

Edition: 2007

Authors: Millie Taylor

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British pantomime, a blend of commedia dell'arte and vaudeville-style performance, uses cross-dressing, familiar children's stories such as "Cinderella", and shouts from the audience as the basis for its matchless theatrical spectacle. Millie Taylor's "British Pantomime Performance" explores how pantomime creates an interactive relationship with--and potentially transformative experience for--its audiences. In its uniquely British form, pantomime draws viewers into the story through an engagement with the hero, an empathetic attachment to the success of the quest, and a complicit relationship between actors and spectators as they unite to create the live performance. A heady combination of…

Book details

List price: $35.50
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Intellect, Limited
Publication date: 11/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792

Millie Taylor is Reader in Performing Arts at the University of Winchester DOMINIC SYMONDS is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader of Drama, School of Creative Arts, Film and Media at the University of Portsmouth. He is Co-Editor of the Studies in Musical Theatre journal, and a convenor of the Music Theatre working group of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR)



Acknowledgments


List of Illustrations


The


Prologue: What's Behind Them?



Money Matters



Chaos and Disruption in Slapstick and Slosh Scenes



Fantasy



Familiarity and Nostalgia in an Oral Tradition



Quests and Transformations in Pantomime Stories



Playing with Distance in Pantoland



Is She or Isn't He? Gender Identity



Audience Participation, Community and Ritual



Topical Reference and the Unique Event



Artifice and Excess in Pantomime Comedy



Mixing Genres in Pantomime Music



A Utopian Community of Dancers


The Epilogue: What's Entertainment


Bibliography


Index