Nineteenth century popular entertainments were colourful, vibrant and exciting. Listen in on conversations between experts Jim Davis, Kate Holmes, Kate Newey and Patricia Smyth. Hear us talk about what made entertainments like melodrama, pantomime, movement and art so much fun and why we should care in this AHRC-funded podcast.
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Nineteenth century popular entertainments were colourful, vibrant and exciting. Listen in on conversations between experts Jim Davis, Kate Holmes, Kate Newey and Patricia Smyth. Hear us talk about what made entertainments like melodrama, pantomime, movement and art so much fun and why we should care in this AHRC-funded podcast.
To find out more visit http://theatreandvisualculture19.wordpress.com
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Kate Holmes visits one of our partner archives, the University of Bristol Theatre Collection. She talks to its Director Jo Elsworth, Archive Assistant Athene Bain and Catherine Hindson, who uses the collection in teaching and research within the Theatre Department. We discuss how their eclectic resources reveal how engaged nineteenth century audiences were and the archive as an inspirational place.
For more, including how to visit, see: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/theatrecollection
People, Plays, Places mentioned in this podcast:
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Kate Holmes and Kate Newey talk to Phil Wickham, Curator of the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. Phil discusses how varied the museum’s nineteenth century holdings are and what they reveal about everyday audience-going.
For more on the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum, including how to visit, see: https://www.bdcmuseum.org.uk
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Kate Newey and Kate Holmes talk about moving bodies, equipment assisting movement and why we should care about silent moving bodies. They touch upon gendered ideas, costume, risk and how elite ballet developed from the popular entertainment of pantomime.
Entertainments, performers, movements & incidents:
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Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.
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One Audience: Art, Theatre & Visual Culture
Hear Patricia Smyth and Jim Davis talk about how popularity was an issue for the theatre and art and how newly expanded urban audiences’ emotional responses caused concerns for elite critics. They’ll talk about how theatre and art were part of a wider spectacular nineteenth century visual culture, what visual culture actually is and how it affected audiences’ lives.
Entertainments, books, paintings & people named in this podcast:
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Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.
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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.
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Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.
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Jim Davis and Kate Newey talk about the origins of melodrama in the French Revolution, the politics of it being a popular form of emotional realism and why dismissing melodrama is to dismiss popular culture today.
Plays & people named in this podcast:
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Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.
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Find out what to expect from the first few episodes of our new podcast.
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