"He's Behind You!" A Brief History of Pantomime

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Punch-Drunk Love
A Punch and Judy show of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, at Morecambe beach, in the north of England, in 1939. Punch and Judy usually consists of a sequence of short scenes, each depicting an interaction between two characters, most typically the anarchic Punch and his long-suffering wife.

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