Spotlight & Grease Pots

Title: Footlights & Grease Pots

Author: Rob van Reijn

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789054291220

Condition: Good

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- As New: Hardly any signs of use, almost as new.
- Good: May show minor signs of use, such as some discoloration or a name on the endpapers, but generally no underlining or notes in the text.
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- New: Book is new.

Description:
We are the brooms that sweep the stage for the pantomime players,' complained the actors in the Amsterdam theatre around 1800. After a play, the audience came in large numbers to the theatre on the Leidseplein to be amused by a cheerful, comical after-piece, usually a ballet pantomime. The most beloved pantomime player at that time was Jan van Well, whose comic talent, according to the critics of the time, 'made the liver shake'. His Pierrot creation in particular was inimitable.