Culture & Events — 08 November 2011
By Chris MarchandIt was the standard for accessible entertainment in the Western world for nearly 50 years. A new travelling exhibit at The Dryden and District Museum explores the theatrical tradition of Vaudeville in Canada until Dec. 16.
Consisting of large displays merging archival photography and text, a few relics and some interactive displays, Voices Of the Town: Vaudeville in Canada tracks the expansion of Vaudeville across the nation with the development of the railroad in the 1880s. With that came a wave of theatre construction in major cities to accommodate thousands of viewers who could turn up for the variety show performances staged by travelling acts — mostly from Britain and America.
The exhibit also explores a side of Vaudeville frowned upon by our present day sensibilities, including the tendency to exploit ethnic differences for comedic purposes. The exaggerated features of Vaudeville’s racial caricatures, such as the use of ‘blackface’, are the origin of many stereotypes that persist to this day.
School kids taking in the exhibit will have a chance to interact with costumes of the Vaudeville era, as well as an operating Kinetoscope — an early, hand-cranked motion picture exhibition device that was popular around the turn of the century.
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