Punch e Judy chiosco a Liverpool, Merseyside, madre e figlia che guarda il Punch & Judy show presso il St George's Day Festival tenutosi al St George's trimestre, Liverpool.
3420 x 2526 px | 29 x 21,4 cm | 11,4 x 8,4 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
26 aprile 2015
Ubicazione:
Liverpool, Merseyside, UK
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Punch and Judy is a traditional, popular 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 Mr Punch and one other character. It is often associated with traditional British seaside culture. The show is performed by a single puppeteer inside the booth, known since Victorian times as a "professor" or "punchman, " and assisted sometimes by a "bottler", who corrals the audience outside the booth, introduces the performance and collects the money ("the bottle"). The bottler might also play accompanying music or sound effects on a drum or guitar and engage in back chat with the puppets, sometimes repeating the same or the copied lines that may have been difficult for the audience to understand. In Victorian times the drum and pan pipes were the instruments of choice. Today, the audience is also encouraged to participate, calling out to the characters on the stage to warn them of danger, or clue them into what is going on behind their backs. Also nowadays most Professors work solo since the need for a bottler became less important when busking with the show gave way to paid engagements at private parties or public events. The Punch and Judy show has roots in the 16th-century Italian commedia dell'arte. The figure of Punch derives from the Neapolitan stock character of Pulcinella, which was anglicized to Punchinello. He is a manifestation of the Lord of Misrule and Trickster figures of deep-rooted mythologies. Punch's wife was originally called "Joan." The figure who later became Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England on 9 May 1662, which is traditionally reckoned as Punch's UK birthday. The diarist Samuel Pepys observed a marionette show featuring an early version of the Punch character in Covent Garden in London. It was performed by an Italian puppet showman, Pietro Gimonde, a.k.a. "Signor Bologna."
