harlequinade

"A harlequinade's the quickest thing we can do, for two reasons.

Although undated, another print shows Madame Auriol as Columbine in the pantomime Harlequinade, the debut of which is recorded as 1815.

Although undated, another print shows Madame Auriol appearing as Columbine in the pantomime Harlequinade, the debut of which is recorded as 1815.

It marked the beginning of an impressive theatre stint, from portraying William Shakespeare in Shakespeare In Love, to joining Sir Kenneth Branagh's repertory company at the Garrick, where he landed a role in The Winter's Tale alongside Dame Judi Dench, and appeared in Sir Kenneth's Harlequinade.

It marked the beginning of an impressive theatre stint, from portraying William Shakespeare in Shakespeare In Love, to joining Kenneth Branagh's repertory company at the Garrick, where he landed a role in The Winter's Tale alongside Dame Judi Dench, and appeared in Branagh's Harlequinade.

With Alexei Ratmansky's Whipped Cream and Harlequinade, I gave them fairly negative reviews but saw them again and liked them much better.

"I opened it and just started laughing, because I thought it was so creative," Boylston said recently by phone from her dressing room, where she was preparing to rehearse the ballet "Harlequinade."

While Clown was a stock harlequinade character played by countless

It soon develops its Harlequinade, the bad jokesmith, the unstoppable talker, the maddening interrupter, the toadies, bad-mouthers, extroverts and those who just sit in silent despair.

I saw Kenneth Branagh in Harlequinade at London's Garrick Theatre.

His latest West End incumbency kicks off with a pretty but superficial staging of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" and the ratty old Rattigan comedy "Harlequinade," both old-school and out of touch.