Pantomime's origins Pantomime has its roots in 'Commedia dell'Arte', a 16th-century Italian entertainment which used dance, music, tumbling, acrobatics and featured a cast of mischievous stock ...
Pierrot is a stock character from pantomime and commedia dell’arte, an early form of French/Italian street theatre dating back to the 16th century. Pierrot first appeared in Molière’s Don Juan, or The ...