Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; The Prologue: What's Behind Them?; Money Matters; Chaos and Disruption in Slapstick and Slosh Scenes; Fantasy and Illusion in Design; Familiarity and Nostalgia in an Oral Tradition; Quests and Transformations in Pantomime Stories; Playing with Distance in Pantoland; Is She or Isn't He? Gender and Identity; Audience Participation, Community and Ritual; Topical Reference and the Unique Event; Artifice and Excess in Pantomime Comedy; Mixing Genres in Pantomime Music; A Utopian Community of Dancers.