Word: panto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soon Julie was playing the prestigious pantomime circuit-Britain's traditional holiday-season pageants for children. During the run of a Christmas "panto" in London, she met Tony Walton, who was 14 and, coincidentally, also nailed from Walton-on-Thames (though there is no connection between the family name and that of the town). She remembers Tony as "one of three goons from home" gawking from the front row. He remembers her "for those long, bandy, chocolate-covered legs...
MARCEL MARCEAU is a stylish musician of motion, an exciting architect of space, an eloquent poet of silence. He is the panto mimic accountant of the laughably saddening costs of being human, with the knowledge that no matter how funny the pratfall, the heart is where the hurt...
...meant to be heard and not seen. Well, if it wasn't earlier this week, it should be now. By adding physical movement to his Dunster-East House production, director Walter Licht has only distracted from the poetry of Dylan Thomas's prose. His player's go through superfluous panto-mines of their words, freeze in awkward tableaux, and speak an appalling number of lines from halfway up the aisle...