Word: victorian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ruddigore” note that the original title, “Ruddygore” was deemed too racy by the nineteenth century standards, because of its similarity to the phrase “bloody gore,” which was altogether too disturbing for audiences at the time. Such Victorian sensibility pervades the work of Gilbert & Sullivan, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Players faithfully recreate it—from the singing of “God Save the Queen” at its start to the resolution-by-marriage finale...
...result of its exuberant humor, “Ruddigore” parties like it is 1889. It is difficult to think of figures more quintessentially Victorian than Gilbert and Sullivan, and this production admirably does not betray their spirit...
...Place. 11:45 p.m. Tickets available through Ticketmaster or at the door. $8 in advance, $10 day of show. (JDMC)PerformancesRuddigore, or The Witch’s Curse. Through Dec. 10. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players put on a classic Gilbert and Sullivan parody of Victorian melodrama. Agassiz Theatre. 8 p.m. Tickets available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $12/10 general admission, $8/6 students. (AMF)Expressions Dance Co. - Fall Show ’05. Through Dec. 3. Expressions Dance Company performs student-produced dance pieces in a variety of genres, from hip-hop to lyrical. Also...
Graff, 65, one of the greatest diamond dealers in the world, started in the business at 14, peddling Victorian rings for a few dollars in London's East End. It didn't take long for him to realize that dealing, not creating, was his forte. So he started buying diamonds and slowly, over several years, they got bigger and bigger...
...nearly 200 years since well-to-do Sydney colonists thought it fashionable to keep young dingoes as pets, but children today still delight in the fat-bellied, golden pups that Lyn Watson takes into shopping centers and schools for show-and-tell visits. The Victorian-based dingo breeder and international dog judge is waging a publicity battle to convince Australians that the dingo is worth saving - a fight that's been going on, in one way or another, ever since sheep arrived with the First Fleet and the dingo became an outlaw. Since then, the animal that figures in Aboriginal...