I was as impressed by Bob's attitude about programming and stories of the earlier game industry as I was surprised by more gritty details about the skeletons in the closets of the big publishers. I don't know whether I want to Tweet Bob congrats on a career loaded with impressive feats or make a donation in his honor and encourage therapy. But in the end, I think maybe that's our line of work in a nutshell. Author Anna Kemp introduces The Hollow Hills, the sequel to her dark magical tale, Into Goblyn Wood. Many commedia plots show the zanni outwitting the vecchi or overthrowing their masters. Their lives are a constant struggle to find food and money. They tell a story about survival against the odds. Survival in the face of cruelty and corruption.

Leno’s Dames, played with an evocative Irish lilt, were down to characters. They spoke in a form of inconsequential chatter. This cleverly captured the rhythms of ordinary speech, while opening up chasms of lunacy, one absurdity on top of another. And all the big revelations were extremely anti climatic and I couldn’t be more unimpressed. There were zero motivation behind the “villains” actions. As the production crew ramps up the frights, secrets start to be revealed… these teenagers have hidden motives for taking part in It’s Behind You! and could some of them be… murder? A rough, uneducated man called John Rich played a key role in the emergence of pantomime. Rich was a dancer, acrobat and mime artist and during the 1720s he was managing a theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields. What he created was a new kind of entertainment. It combined a storyline from Ovid’s Metamorphoses and a harlequinade. This took the form of an energetic chase, featuring the adventures of Harlequin and Columbine, the commedia servants. did I just finish this entire book in one sitting without even closing it once? Yes I did. To be honest I only did that because people always say you should always finish a horror movie before sleeping so I felt compelled to do the same with this horror book.Perhaps that sadness was what attracted him, both in costume and in temperament, to Pierrot, the broken-hearted French Clown. Certainly Grimaldi liked to play on this mixture of light and darkness in his character, telling his audiences, ‘I am Grim all day, but I make you laugh at night’. It was not long before the grimness started to take over. Then again, this isn’t her first rodeo. She’s been acting for quite some time and Jan Broberg is definitely one of the best things about this horror movie. Jan Broberg was also in the horror movie remake Maniac from 2012 which starred Elijah Wood and Haunt (2014). She could easily have a big career as a horror icon… but not particularly thanks to Behind You. Lastly I want to say that I personally really liked the end and I don’t understand how people felt like this was a super open ending. In my opinion the epilogue resolved everything really well but maybe some people just didn’t understand it because for you to get that "reference“ at the end, one would have had to be paying very good attention which I (for once) did, I guess. but let me tell you this wasn’t nearly as scary as I expected it to be, there was like one thing that was actually scary and the rest was okay I guess. The impressive longevity of pantomime comes from its ability to evolve and not be afraid to adapt to the tastes and fashion of the time. It's why the productions we enjoy today always feel fresh, modern and relevant. Here we will explore pantomime's colourful and eclectic history. Panto’s Beginnings: Commedia dell’Arte

finally, but that's just my personal preference, i would have liked this better if there was actual paranormal involved ; the fact that the "twist"—adding quotation marks because said twist was very anticlimactic—ended up being a human murdering people disappointed me. also, i'm not sure i really understood her motives ?? that might just be me though, i didn't pay much attention during the classic "villain's monologue where they reveal their whole plan".I loved following the unveiling of all the many secrets, each one making you question your current guess of who was the murderer - and who was behind the derailing of the game. There are so many layers and twists to it. They're very self-absorbed, all caught in self-created (and in Erin's case, encouraged by those around her) delusions that you want to break down. You're not following them along because you want them to succeed to achieve their goals, but because you want their fantasies to be ripped apart and then to face the truth (and also find out what the answer to the mystery is.) The setting of the novel was fun and delivered on the thriller part. I felt so claustrophobic reading it; the caves were wonderfully spooky and definitely terrifying.

The Nottinghill Carnival takes central stage in this story about families, memories and the power of dance and festivals. Author Yaba Badoe tells... The amazing leaps and pratfalls he performed forced Grimaldi into premature retirement, destitution and an early death. Thousands of people would line the streets as his coffin made its way up to Pentonville Hill. Into the Victoria age - Dan Leno and the Pantomime Dame And once again, I read a horror in one go right before sleeping, and it was a bad idea. I should really have learnt by now that I just can't deal with creepy things before bed, because this certainly was creepy. The main problem for me is that it’s more to the younger side of YA and appeals to a munch younger audience. I don’t even know what ages they all were in the book, but they came across as really juvenile.You might have thought that, with all this to contend with, the last thing Carina would need is a bunch of anonymous death threats.