Panto's Progress

Kate Newey and Jim Davis are back talking about Pantomime as a rough demotic physical performance form that developed from Commedia dell’arte and defied censorship. They discuss panto as a profitable industry that continues to adapt and reflect its age and what that has meant over the last few hundred years.

Plays, people and performance forms named in this podcast:

• 16/18th century performance form: Commedia dell’arte
• Pantomime clown: Joseph Grimaldi
• Actor/Manager: John Rich
• Actor/Manager: David Garrick
• Actor/Manager: Augustus Harris
• Music Hall Comedian & Pantomime Dame: Dan Leno
• Actor/Manager: Eliza Vestris
• Recent Pantomime Dame & Pantomime Writer: Chris Harris, Bath Theatre Royal
• Recent Pantomime Dame: Clive Rowe, Hackney Empire
• Interview: Kate Newey speaking to Chris Harris & Clive Rowe
• Actor-Acrobat/Manager: George Conquest

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Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.

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