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Punch and Judy is a traditional 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 the anarchic Mr. Punch and one other character who usually falls victim to the intentional violence of Punch's slapstick. First appearing ...
A swazzle ( swozzle, schwazzle or swatchel) is a device made of two strips of metal bound around a cotton tape reed. The device is used to produce the distinctive harsh, rasping voice of Punch in a Punch and Judy show, and is held in the mouth by the professor (performer). The design of the swazzle was once a secret guarded by the professors ...
The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy: "set down in 1828 by John Payne Collier, now edited with an introduction by Paul McPharlin and illustrated with collotype reproductions of the original etchings by George Cruikshank and of twenty-four sketches in color by Mr. Cruikshank never before printed".
Punch and Judy is a chamber opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by Stephen Pruslin, based on the puppet figures of the same names. Birtwistle wrote the score from 1966 to 1967. The opera was first performed at the Aldeburgh Festival, which had commissioned the work, on 8 June 1968, with David Atherton conducting the English ...
Few seaside Punch and Judy shows remain but Joe Burns still attracts thousands of fans on the beach in Swanage.
The Feminist Art Program (FAP) was a college-level art program for women developed in 1970 by artist Judy Chicago and continued by artists Rita Yokoi, Miriam Schapiro, and others. The FAP began at Fresno State College, as a way to address gender inequities in art education, and the art world in general. In 1971, Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro ...
Addicted to Fresno (formerly Fresno) is a 2015 American dark comedy film directed by Jamie Babbit and written by Karey Dornetto. [1] The film stars Natasha Lyonne and Judy Greer as two sisters that find themselves in trouble after housekeeper Shannon Jackson (Greer) accidentally kills a guest at the hotel employing her and younger sister Martha (Lyonne).
Other publications included a script in 1828 under the title The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Punch and Judy. [7] He produced the Memoirs of Edward Alleyn for the Shakespeare Society in 1841. [8] He followed up this volume with the Alleyn Papers (1843) [9] and the Diary of Philip Henslowe (1845). [10]