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Let the scenes abound with light, specially colored and varied; and let the masquers, or any other, that are to come down from the scene, have some motions upon the scene itself, before their coming down; for it draws the eye strangely, and makes it, with great pleasure, to desire to see, that it cannot perfectly discern.

What does your blockhead father when he and Mrs Rudge have laid their heads together, but goes there when he ought to be abed, makes interest with his friend the doorkeeper, slips him on a mask and domino, and mixes with the masquers.'

The girl masquers that figure in the 1596 memorial portrait of the Elizabethan diplomat Henry Unton communicate a similar sense of divinity.

The Tribal Masquers dance troupe was also there to make her birthday extra special.

(7) Critical discussion, though, tends to focus on the masque's 'revels', the moment when the masquers 'take out' members of the audience, and the inherent potential for surprise in the revelatory unmasking.

The masques are presented as relegating the female masquers to their bodily roles as vessels with the design of the masques juxtaposing bodies and scenery, foregrounding the material.

Similarly, in the Blithedale procession, animal-themed costumes are worn by the masquers, with a "Kentucky woodsman [in] deerskin leggings" and a "Shepherd of Arcadia" watching over the pastoral flock (3:209).

Kenilworth was the most ambitious, with fireworks, huge water displays, masquers dancing and singing, while actors recited verse in the Queen's honour from pleasure boats on a temporary lake.

Program A includes: All Things to All People by Kyle Zielinsky of Bethel Park, PA (produced by the Baldwin Players), Suddenly, Last Supper by David Katzin of Pittsburgh (produced by the Summer Company) and Moon Over Gomorrah by Brian Wilmont of Rochester, NY (produced by The Red Masquers).