Mother Goose
Set Design
1954 (designed)
1954 (designed)
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Set model piece for 'Fantasy of Birds' in pantomime Mother Goose, London Palladium, 1954.
Mother Goose was written by Phil Park and Eric Sykes and starred Peter Sellers as The Squire, Richard ‘Mr Pastry’ Hearne as Mother Goose and Max Bygraves as Mother Goose’s Sweetshop Assistant Sammy. The production was designed by Charles Reading with Erté’s dream sequence receiving great praise from the Sunday Telegraph’s critic, who wrote “rarely does one find in a pantomime a transformation scene as delicate and gracious as the grey silk lighted dream pagodas which conclude the first act.”
Erté’s design for the transformation sequence brought Sammy’s sweetshop dream to life as the stage filled with silver d’oyleys, crystallised fruits, liquorice allsorts and chocolate creams, concluding with a visit to The Land of Whipped Cream.
Mother Goose was written by Phil Park and Eric Sykes and starred Peter Sellers as The Squire, Richard ‘Mr Pastry’ Hearne as Mother Goose and Max Bygraves as Mother Goose’s Sweetshop Assistant Sammy. The production was designed by Charles Reading with Erté’s dream sequence receiving great praise from the Sunday Telegraph’s critic, who wrote “rarely does one find in a pantomime a transformation scene as delicate and gracious as the grey silk lighted dream pagodas which conclude the first act.”
Erté’s design for the transformation sequence brought Sammy’s sweetshop dream to life as the stage filled with silver d’oyleys, crystallised fruits, liquorice allsorts and chocolate creams, concluding with a visit to The Land of Whipped Cream.
Object details
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| Title | Mother Goose (popular title) |
| Materials and techniques | Gouache and watercolour on card |
| Brief description | Set model piece for 'Fantasy of Birds' in pantomime Mother Goose, London Palladium, 1954 |
| Physical description | Gouache and watercolour on card set model piece for Act 2, Scene 8 in pantomime Mother Goose, London Palladium, 1954. |
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| Credit line | Given by Roger Fox |
| Summary | Set model piece for 'Fantasy of Birds' in pantomime Mother Goose, London Palladium, 1954. Mother Goose was written by Phil Park and Eric Sykes and starred Peter Sellers as The Squire, Richard ‘Mr Pastry’ Hearne as Mother Goose and Max Bygraves as Mother Goose’s Sweetshop Assistant Sammy. The production was designed by Charles Reading with Erté’s dream sequence receiving great praise from the Sunday Telegraph’s critic, who wrote “rarely does one find in a pantomime a transformation scene as delicate and gracious as the grey silk lighted dream pagodas which conclude the first act.” Erté’s design for the transformation sequence brought Sammy’s sweetshop dream to life as the stage filled with silver d’oyleys, crystallised fruits, liquorice allsorts and chocolate creams, concluding with a visit to The Land of Whipped Cream. |
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| Accession number | S.31-2015 |
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| Record created | January 23, 2015 |
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