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| Anonymous French Artist Scene from Le Magnifique (comic opera by Michel-Jean Sedaine and André Grétry) ca. 1773 oil on canvas Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham |
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| Samuel de Wilde Joseph George Holman as Chamont (scene from The Orphan by Thomas Otway) 1785 oil on canvas Museum of London |
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| Francis Wheatley Lady Easy's Steinkirk (scene from The Fearless Husband by Colley Cibber) ca. 1790 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Thomas Kirk Aaron the Moor with Demetrius, Nurse and Child (scene from Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare) ca. 1796 oil on canvas Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon |
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| Thomas Stothard Arrival of the Princess of France (scene from Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare) ca. 1800 oil on canvas Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon |
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| James Lonsdale Angelica Catalani as Semiramide (scene from the opera Semiramide by Marco Portogallo) ca. 1808 oil on canvas Royal Academy of Music, London |
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| Laura Wilson Barker Ellen Terry as Juliet (scene from Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare) ca. 1886 oil on paper National Trust, Smallhythe Place, Kent |
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| Charles Buchel Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Othello (scene from Othello by Shakespeare) 1914 oil on board Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| David Bomberg The Tragedians 1919 oil on canvas University College London Art Museum |
(This Line Intentionally Left Blank)
we all got tickets to The Truth
finally we thought finally
when the curtain fell away
our indrawn breaths could be heard
even in the next theater
even the gasp of the mime
who had slipped in among us
a loud whushing like reams of litter
whirling upward in a gale
hands shot to mouths and mouths
fell open I couldn't say within
how many seconds
all our minds shut some
slamming others just a click
like 300 parallel
rows of tipped dominoes
a racket of almost unison
believe me we wouldn't
have resisted anything
but the truth
so instantly and universally
yet we sat there and waited
for something else
which you could say we also got
if you count the mime's
unpleasant remark
so she wasn't even a real mime
probably part of what was
clearly just a performance
– J. Allyn Rosser (2011)
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| Nigel Ramsey Newton Hamlet at the New Theatre 1934 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Maurice MacGonigal The Olympia, Dublin ca. 1935-36 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Mario Sironi Dancing on Stage ca. 1935 oil on board Estorick Collection, London |
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| Elizabeth Montgomery Peggy Ashcroft as Irina and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Olga (scene from The Three Sisters by Chekhov) ca. 1938 oil on canvas Victoria & Albert Museum, London |
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| Sidney Smith Memory of Les Sylphides (ballet by Michel Fokine) 1943 oil on canvas Naughton Gallery, Queen's University, Belfast |
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| Kevin Sinnott Turandot (opera by Giacomo Puccini) 1987 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff (Wales) |