Theatre Artist Gifts

Performance Artist - Gone to put you off your lunch.

Headpiece to E Dowson's 'The Pierrot of the Minute'

Man on corner near theatre has puppets and does 'Sneak Previews' for money,

'And now, all the way from Neverland...here's Captain Hook and his amazing hoop trick. Give him a hand, folks!'

'He's something to do with the growing trend to bring theatre into the workplace!'

Who d'you think you are?

Sacrificial effigy dancing.

A mime uses invisible box cleaner to clean his invisible box.

Cygnets from Swan Lake

Bird Costume

Pola Negri

Shepherd and eurydice

"This is a lovely old song that tells of a young woman who leaves her cottage, and goes off to work. She arrives at her destination, and places some solid NHHS in a flask containing 0.50 atm ofammonia, and attempts to determine the pressures of ammonia and hydrogen sulide when equilibrium is reached."

'He really wanted to get into the zombie role, so he became a Meth-Head actor.'

Benedict Cumberbatch

Department of Theatre, Film and Television: Lights...Camera...Unemployment!

"God, I hope no one asks me to sing."

Papageno from The Magic Flute

Shakespeare does stand-up comedy in the round.

"Extreme miming"

Women's Bonnets Block the Audience View

Pirate

Southwark Fair.

Anthropologists discover the earliest known depiction of Jazz Hands.

"All our extras are ex-soccer players - they're the best at dramatically faking injuries."

'I guess it's not much consolation but I thought your impersonation of the King was a riot.'

"Smile when you say that, pardner."

1847 - Bram Stoker, creator of Dracula was born in Dublin.

'Okay, folks, that's a wrap!'

Owing to a clerical error, Luciano Pavarotti receives kudus instead of kudos for his performance as the Duke of Mantua.

Piracy on a boating lake

'Oh, it's a long, long time...From here to November...'

'But they told me to take her down to theatre...'

"When I grow up, I want to become president and eventually the subject of a groundbreaking, critically-acclaimed Broadway musical."

Taking a peek at the audience