Talk:Short Story:Theatre of Cruelty

Many years later, Chas Slumber's advertisement still appears under "Children's Entertainers" in The Compleat Ankh-Morpork. How frightening is that show? --Old Dickens (talk) 04:36, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

Could be very frightening. Like clowns, can the name be passed on in your will or sold on after your demise? And Punch-and-Judy shows are one of those time-honoured forms of entertainment which today are still, word-for-word and action-for-action, pretty much exactly as they were several centuries ago. Punch is even dressed in recognisable motley. The horrible thought emerges that this is a small but recognisable part of the Fools' guild portfolio of entertainment interests and as such comes under the purview of doctor Whiteface. Somewhere in the Halls of Mirth a small dedicated department is training Punch-and-Judy operators in the time-honoured skills and ensuring they deviate from the script not in the tiniest iota... Help, I feel fanfic coming on.AgProv (talk) 15:39, 6 January 2017 (UTC)