The Spectacular Century

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 People and Entertainments named in this podcast:Filmmaker: Bill Douglas Entertainment: Magic lanterns Entertainment: Nineteenth-Century Panorama Entertainment: Diorama PaintingsEntertainment: Peep (or Raree) Show Performer: Albert SmithOur YouTube Channel YouTube video on PlaybillsYouTube video on Music Hall Celebrity Postcards Entertainment: PraxinoscopeTheatre PraxinoscopeFilm: Douglas, Bill (1986) ComradesEntertainment: Shadow Puppet ShowsEntertainment: Thaumotrope YouTube video of Vampire Peep Show created as part of this project by Tony LidingtonBook: Della Porta, Giovanni Batista (1658) Natural Magick

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: Entertainment: Pleasure Gardens (including Cremorne & Vauxhall)Entertainment: Music HallEntertainment: Concert DanceEntertainment: Ballet. For more on differences between romantic & classical see: https://www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk/different-types-balletEntertainment: Nineteenth Century Burlesque – this doesn’t have the same meaning as today. For more see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_burlesqueAerialist: Jules LéotardPhysical Culture Movement: Muscular ChristianityAerialist: Mademoiselle AzellaBallet: Adam, Adolphe (1841) Giselle, ou les WilisTrain accident: 1918 Hagenbeck Wallace train wreckStage technology: trap doors. See this video for nineteenth century traps still working at the Gaiety on the Isle of Man.Want to find out more after this podcast? Here's our pick of free online resources.Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.

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: Painter: Paul DelarochePainting: Delaroche, Paul (1833) The Execution of Lady Jane Grey Painting: Delaroche, Paul (1855) The Young Christian MartyrPainting: Delaroche, Paul (1834) The Assassination of the Duc de Guise, Château de ChantillyEntertainment: Nineteenth-Century Panorama, see more here: https://www.bl.uk/picturing-places/articles/the-spectacle-of-the-panoramaEntertainment: Diorama Paintings, see more here: http://cultureandcommunication.org/deadmedia/index.php/Daguerre's_DioramaPlay: Boucicault, Dion (1860) The Colleen Bawn or The Brides of GarryowenPainting: Millais, John Everett (1851-2) OpheliaAcademic Book: Meisel, Martin (1983) Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University PressPainting: Solomon, Abraham (1857) Waiting for the VerdictPlay: Boucicault, Dion (1857) The Poor of New York (in the US, first adapted to be: The Streets of London, before topical adaptations of the cities it was produced in).Want to find out more after this podcast? Here's our pick of free online resources.Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.

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 GrimaldiActor/Manager: John RichActor/Manager: David GarrickActor/Manager: Augustus HarrisMusic Hall Comedian & Pantomime Dame: Dan LenoActor/Manager: Eliza VestrisRecent Pantomime Dame & Pantomime Writer: Chris Harris, Bath Theatre RoyalRecent Pantomime Dame: Clive Rowe, Hackney EmpireInterview: Kate Newey speaking to Chris Harris & Clive RoweActor-Acrobat/Manager: George ConquestWant to find out more after this podcast? Here's our pick of free online resources.Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.

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:Play: Holcroft, Thomas (1802) A Tale of Mystery (an unacknowledged translation of de Pixerécourt's Cœlina, ou, l'enfant du mystère)Playwright: René-Charles Guilbert de PixérécourtPlay: Jerrold, Douglas William (1829) Black Eyed SusanActor: Thomas Potter CookeDiderot, Denis (1830 [written in 1770s]) The Paradox of the ActorActor: NT HicksSensation novel: Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1862) Lady Audley’s Secret. Melodrama adaptation: Hazlewood, Colin Henry (1863) first performed at the Victoria Theatre, London.Play: Boucicault, Dion (1868) After Dark: A Tale of London LifePlay: Boucicault, Dion (1860) The Colleen Bawn or The Brides of GarryowenPlaywright, critic & political activist: George Bernard ShawPlay: Lewis, Leopold David (1871) The Bells Play: Pocock, Isaac (1831) The Miller and His MenWant to find out more after this podcast? Here's our pick of free online resources.Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.

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