Punch and Judy puppets
Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular, and usually very violent puppet show featuring Mr. Punch and his wife, Judy.
The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically Mr Punch and one other character (who usually falls victim to Mr. Punch's club).
It is often associated with traditional British seaside culture. The various episodes of Punch and Judy are performed in the spirit of outrageous comedy — often provoking shocked laughter — and are dominated by the anarchic clowning of Mr. Punch.
The show is performed by a single puppeteer inside the booth, known as a "professor" or "punchman", and assisted sometimes by a "bottler", who corrals the audience outside the booth, introduces the performance and collects the money.
The bottler might also play accompanying music or sound effects on a drum or guitar and engage in back chat with the puppets, sometimes repeating the same or the copied lines that may have been difficult for the audience to understand.
The audience today would be known as spectactors, who contribute to the performance.
Also nowadays most Professors work solo since the need for a bottler became less important when busking with the show gave way to paid engagements at private parties or public events.
The Punch and Judy show has roots in the 16th-century Italian Commedia Dell'Arte.
Pantomime
Pantomime a type of musical comedy stage production, designed for family entertainment.
It was developed in England and is still performed, generally during the Christmas and New Year season, especially in the UK and, to a lesser extent, in other English-speaking countries.
Modern pantomime includes songs, slapstick comedy and dancing, employs gender-crossing actors, and combines topical humor with a story loosely based on a well-known fairy tale.
It is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.
Outside of Britain, the word "pantomime" is usually used to mean miming, rather than the theatrical form Pantomime.
The development of English pantomime was strongly influenced by the continental Commedia Dell'Arte, a form of popular theatre that arose in Italy in the Early Modern Period.
This was a "comedy of professional artists" traveling from province to province in Italy and then France, who improvised and told comic stories that held lessons for the crowd, changing the main character depending on where they were performing.
Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular, and usually very violent puppet show featuring Mr. Punch and his wife, Judy.
The performance consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically Mr Punch and one other character (who usually falls victim to Mr. Punch's club).
It is often associated with traditional British seaside culture. The various episodes of Punch and Judy are performed in the spirit of outrageous comedy — often provoking shocked laughter — and are dominated by the anarchic clowning of Mr. Punch.
The show is performed by a single puppeteer inside the booth, known as a "professor" or "punchman", and assisted sometimes by a "bottler", who corrals the audience outside the booth, introduces the performance and collects the money.
The bottler might also play accompanying music or sound effects on a drum or guitar and engage in back chat with the puppets, sometimes repeating the same or the copied lines that may have been difficult for the audience to understand.
The audience today would be known as spectactors, who contribute to the performance.
Also nowadays most Professors work solo since the need for a bottler became less important when busking with the show gave way to paid engagements at private parties or public events.
The Punch and Judy show has roots in the 16th-century Italian Commedia Dell'Arte.
Pantomime
Pantomime a type of musical comedy stage production, designed for family entertainment.
It was developed in England and is still performed, generally during the Christmas and New Year season, especially in the UK and, to a lesser extent, in other English-speaking countries.
Modern pantomime includes songs, slapstick comedy and dancing, employs gender-crossing actors, and combines topical humor with a story loosely based on a well-known fairy tale.
It is a participatory form of theatre, in which the audience is expected to sing along with certain parts of the music and shout out phrases to the performers.
Outside of Britain, the word "pantomime" is usually used to mean miming, rather than the theatrical form Pantomime.
The development of English pantomime was strongly influenced by the continental Commedia Dell'Arte, a form of popular theatre that arose in Italy in the Early Modern Period.
This was a "comedy of professional artists" traveling from province to province in Italy and then France, who improvised and told comic stories that held lessons for the crowd, changing the main character depending on where they were performing.