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Description. The mixed media painting depicts a Black pirate -like figure with a wooden leg and long hair. The figure has an alien-like face and wears a long coat, belt, a puffy, frilly white shirt, and a pair of blue pants. Holding a green parrot in its hand, the figure appears to be standing underwater, on seaweed, surrounded by a coral reef.
Melodrama Unveiled: American Theatre and Culture, 1800–50. Chicago: U of Chicago P. ISBN 978-0-226-30901-9. "well-made play". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2015. Web. 1 November 2015. Stephenson, Laura, et al. (2013). Forgotten Comedies of the 19th Century Theater. Clarion Publishing, Staunton, Va.. ISBN 978 ...
The praxinoscope was an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. It was invented in France in 1877 by Charles-Émile Reynaud. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of ...
Professional ratings. I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus is the fourth comedy album made by the Firesign Theatre for Columbia Records, [4] released in August 1971 on standard stereo vinyl LP, and Quadraphonic LP and 8-track tape. It was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1972 by the World Science Fiction Society.
Trifles. (play) Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. It was first performed by the Provincetown Players at the Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on August 8, 1916. In the original performance, Glaspell played the role of Mrs. Hale. The play is frequently anthologized in American literature textbooks.
The Bird Cage Theatre was a theater in Tombstone, Arizona, United States. [1] It operated intermittently from December 1881 to 1894. When the silver mines closed, the ...
Her godparents were composer Constant Lambert, Labour peer Tom Driberg and Daria Hambourg (daughter of the pianist Mark Hambourg). [2] Sylvestre was married to Ian Palmer from 1977 until his death in 1995, and they had three children: Zoë Laureen Palmer (creator of the opera series Musical Rumpus, a writer, musician, environmentalist and TV presenter for Treks in a Wild World and Fierce Earth ...
Kamishibai (紙芝居, "paper play") is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television during the mid-20th century. Kamishibai were performed by a kamishibaiya (" kamishibai narrator") who travelled to street corners ...