Sentence examples for fairground performance from inspiring English sources

Extensive use is made of Bankelsang, a kind of street and fairground performance that Gluckel herself might have seen, in which, as the director's program notes explain, "a singer stood on a bench beside a giant painting, interpreting the complex image for the audience".

Jazz in Litchfield Another good reason to head up to the Berkshire foothills this coming weekend is the Litchfield Jazz Festival, with a three-day parade of artists and groups on the Goshen Fairgrounds, plus additional performances by young musicians and dancers who have been studying much of this month at the festival's Summer Music School and the affiliated Greenhouse Dance Institute.

Sergeant Troy's disastrous failed wedding day is truncated and his most important scene has been entirely jettisoned – the secret performance at the fairground tent, playing Dick Turpin, and discovering his wife in the audience.

South Quay, Sat, Sun Colette Bernhardt No one makes immersive live arts quite like Marisa Carnesky, with her enthralling performance pieces melding magic, fairground hucksterism, sexual politics and an especially dark glamour.

At the same time he takes care to place himself at the butt of the joke too, his gravel-voiced performance ("Like a rundown fairground, there wasn't much to go on") heavily farcical.

Indeed, he almost seems to welcome scepticism as a necessary contribution to Neurosis's performance, since all great fairground experiences depend, for their effect, on a measure of the improbable or incredible.

Written by Foco Novo's co-founder Bernard Pomerance, the play was acclaimed for the performance of David Schofield as the Victorian Victorian fairground exhibit Joseph John Merrickck, and entered the repertoire of the National Theatre in 1980, while another, simultaneous, production ran on Broadway.

Damon, who was a professor of English at Brown University, not only wrote the show's script but also provided piano accompaniment and even advertised the performances by personally leading his drum-beating, horn-tooting cast of boy puppeteers around the fairground.

It was painstakingly collated by the eminent late historian George Speaight, and experts say it provides a significant record that traces the development of Punch and Judy's performances as marionettes in the Restoration era, to their 18th-century reinvention as glove puppets in fairground booths and on London streets and as children's seaside entertainment in the 20th century.

Dad spent the last three years of his life in an Alzheimer's unit, but even when he no longer knew who the current president was, he could pinpoint the place on the State Fairgrounds where his father, an amateur magician, had pickpocketed the mayor of St . Pauls watch during an impromptu performance.

It is a fairground.