60 acast.com The Spectacular Century http://theatreandvisualculture19.wordpress.com en Conversations About Nineteenth Century Performance and Visual Culture 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.


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]]> false Kate Holmes k.j.holmes@exeter.ac.uk 621756e12da4290013f9bec8 the-spectacular-century episodic https://assets.pippa.io/shows/undefined/1645695950924-4fa936e85d474f8c1d4b86685b68a0a6.jpeg http://theatreandvisualculture19.wordpress.com The Spectacular Century Engaged Audiences Engaged Audiences Wed, 18 May 2022 10:45:31 GMT 32:14 6283a7bb2714190011a5e0cb false https://shows.acast.com/the-spectacular-century/episodes/engaged-audiences 6283a7bb2714190011a5e0cb 621756e12da4290013f9bec8 engaged-audiences the University of Bristol Theatre Collection full 1 6 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

 

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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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]]> Audiences in the Archive Audiences in the Archive Wed, 27 Apr 2022 10:45:00 GMT 24:21 6255586bea4f5700121fb3ef false https://shows.acast.com/the-spectacular-century/episodes/audiences-in-the-archive 6255586bea4f5700121fb3ef 621756e12da4290013f9bec8 audiences-in-the-archive the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum full 1 5 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.


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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


People and Entertainments named in this podcast:


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]]> Moving Bodies Moving Bodies Wed, 13 Apr 2022 10:45:50 GMT 34:00 621cfe26883846001397033c false https://shows.acast.com/the-spectacular-century/episodes/moving-bodies 621cfe26883846001397033c 621756e12da4290013f9bec8 moving-bodies full 1 4 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 Hall
  • Entertainment: Concert Dance
  • Entertainment: Ballet. For more on differences between romantic & classical see: https://www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk/different-types-ballet
  • Entertainment: Nineteenth Century Burlesque – this doesn’t have the same meaning as today. For more see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_burlesque
  • Aerialist: Jules Léotard
  • Physical Culture Movement: Muscular Christianity
  • Aerialist: Mademoiselle Azella
  • Ballet: Adam, Adolphe (1841) Giselle, ou les Wilis
  • Train accident: 1918 Hagenbeck Wallace train wreck
  • Stage technology: trap doors. See this video for nineteenth century traps still working at the Gaiety on the Isle of Man.


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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: 


  • Entertainment: Pleasure Gardens (including Cremorne & Vauxhall)
  • Entertainment: Music Hall
  • Entertainment: Concert Dance
  • Entertainment: Ballet. For more on differences between romantic & classical see: https://www.blackpoolgrand.co.uk/different-types-ballet
  • Entertainment: Nineteenth Century Burlesque – this doesn’t have the same meaning as today. For more see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_burlesque
  • Aerialist: Jules Léotard
  • Physical Culture Movement: Muscular Christianity
  • Aerialist: Mademoiselle Azella
  • Ballet: Adam, Adolphe (1841) Giselle, ou les Wilis
  • Train accident: 1918 Hagenbeck Wallace train wreck
  • Stage 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.

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]]> One Audience One Audience Wed, 30 Mar 2022 10:45:20 GMT 31:41 621cfcdb5e883b00126c37d0 false https://shows.acast.com/the-spectacular-century/episodes/one-audience 621cfcdb5e883b00126c37d0 621756e12da4290013f9bec8 one-audience full 1 3 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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]]> 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: 



Want 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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]]> <![CDATA[Panto's Progress]]> Wed, 16 Mar 2022 11:45:24 GMT 35:39 621cfb9a40c0770013583172 false https://shows.acast.com/the-spectacular-century/episodes/pantos-progress 621cfb9a40c0770013583172 621756e12da4290013f9bec8 pantos-progress full 1 2 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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]]> 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


Want 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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]]> Why Melodrama? Why Melodrama? Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:45:40 GMT 29:28 621cf3a80fa0d50012e8dfe3 false https://shows.acast.com/the-spectacular-century/episodes/why-melodrama 621cf3a80fa0d50012e8dfe3 621756e12da4290013f9bec8 why-melodrama full 1 1

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 Pixérécourt
  • Play: Jerrold, Douglas William (1829) Black Eyed Susan
  • Actor: Thomas Potter Cooke
  • Diderot, Denis (1830 [written in 1770s]) The Paradox of the Actor
  • Actor: NT Hicks
  • Sensation 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 Life
  • Play: Boucicault, Dion (1860) The Colleen Bawn or The Brides of Garryowen
  • Playwright, critic & political activist: George Bernard Shaw
  • Play: Lewis, Leopold David (1871) The Bells 
  • Play: Pocock, Isaac (1831) The Miller and His Men


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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:

  • 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 Pixérécourt
  • Play: Jerrold, Douglas William (1829) Black Eyed Susan
  • Actor: Thomas Potter Cooke
  • Diderot, Denis (1830 [written in 1770s]) The Paradox of the Actor
  • Actor: NT Hicks
  • Sensation 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 Life
  • Play: Boucicault, Dion (1860) The Colleen Bawn or The Brides of Garryowen
  • Playwright, critic & political activist: George Bernard Shaw
  • Play: Lewis, Leopold David (1871) The Bells 
  • Play: Pocock, Isaac (1831) The Miller and His Men


Want 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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]]> Trailer Trailer Mon, 28 Feb 2022 11:30:14 GMT 1:24 62175fc62da4290013f9c1fa false https://shows.acast.com/the-spectacular-century/episodes/trailer 62175fc62da4290013f9c1fa 621756e12da4290013f9bec8 trailer trailer 1 Find out what to expect from the first few episodes of our new podcast.


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]]> Find out what to expect from the first few episodes of our new podcast.


Music: Ambient piano & strings by ZakharValahaa.

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