Monthly Archives: May 2011

Sir Max Beerbohm

Posted on Tuesday May 24th, 2011 by TCHE

‘No actor of our time deserved immortality as well as he’ Sir Max Beerbohm

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Sir Max Beerbohm

Posted on Sunday May 22nd, 2011 by TCHE

‘It seemed miraculous how Dan Leno contrived to make you see before you the imaginary persons with whom he conversed… Continue reading →

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The Times

Posted on Saturday May 21st, 2011 by TCHE

‘He could hardly walk, and certainly never dance, without raising a smile, but he had a hundred different ways of walking and dancing, each appropriate to the person he was representing.’ The Times

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Sir Max Beerbohm

Posted on Friday May 20th, 2011 by TCHE

“Here was a man unlike anyone else we had ever seen… Continue reading →

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Joseph Grimaldi

Posted on Monday May 9th, 2011 by TCHE

Joseph Grimaldi (18 December 1778 – 31 May 1837) Known as ‘The most celebrated of English clowns’, credited with being ‘the first white-face clown’. Joseph Grimaldi’s performances made the Clown the central character in the English Harlequinades.

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Richard Findlater

Posted on Monday May 9th, 2011 by TCHE

Richard Findlater (Kenneth Bruce Findlater Bain) (1921 – 1985) English theatre critic and historian. One of Britain’s most respected writers on the theatre. Continue reading →

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The Dan Leno Project

Posted on Monday May 9th, 2011 by TCHE

Welcome to The Dan Leno Project. Dan Leno was one of the great music hall and pantomime stars of the Victorian era (many would say ‘the greatest’.) Continue reading →

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