Zusammenfassung der Ressource
lydia thompson
and burlesque
theatre
- her career
- sucsess
- harlequin and the three bears
- first critic sucsess
- played the character "silverhair"
- tour of Europe
- appealing due to her
talent and sex appeal
- in Gernmany, she was
intdroduced to the
Emperor
- most popular
in Germany
- aslo toured America
- phenomenon in
America
- the spanish dancers sucsess
- Title role in pantomime little
bo peep
- before sucsess
- joined her magesties
theatre dance chorus
- preformed in childrens
show "living marronettes" 1853
- theatre
- backstage
- converting serious
plays into comedy
- literaracy references
usally used.
- audience assumed
to know litterate
works
- preformers need to know these literacy terms
- in preformance
- humour
- drag
- big sex appeal in the dance
- physical
- lots of dance
- history
- born in London
(covent gardens
19th feb 1838
- family
- mother was fond of the stage
- her dad died before she got onto
the stage
- she was 14 years old when
she joined a dance chorus
(her magesties theatre)
- dispute over whether lydia
and her brother were actually
her dads children
- died 17th
novermebr
1908