And she demonstrates that history, represented by the pageant of Between the Acts, informed even the work of those who claimed to reject their cultural inheritance.
But then the pageant — staged between here and Palmyra since 1937, on the very hill where, it is said, an angel named Moroni directed Joseph Smith to uncover golden plates 188 years ago — really is the Book of Mormon, a Cecil B. DeMille-style presentation of the holy book rather than the cheerfully profane Broadway version.
He produced such romances as The Captives and A Pleasant Comedy, Called a Maidenhead Well Lost (both in 1634); such adventure plays as The Fair Maid of the West (1631); and seven lord mayor's pageants, completed between 1631 and 1639.
Next weekend's pageant in Las Vegas between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao has returned boxing to the forefront of the sporting canon.
The drama is presented in an elegant pageant of encounters between the two, showing the deepening of Elliott's anger as the king is betrayed to a cruel and hideous mob.
As I took notes regarding that slice of the abbey's pageant that passed between the distant shoulder of Viscount Linley on one aisle, and the headdress of the Sultan of Oman on the other, Dickens lay memorialised under my feet.
The actress said that her differences with her mother are "very similar" to the ones between the pageant mother she portrays in her new movie, "Dumplin". .
To be fair, a distinction must be made between the pageant coming to Quebec and others on the circuit, for instance the BC-based, porno-sounding Dreamboat Dolls.
The battle between beauty pageant mogul Donald Trump and veteran politician Hillary Clinton to become leader of the free world has been raging for over a year, and now, finally, it's almost time for some goddamn voting.
