below-stairs

You'd hardly call them revolutionary but they do resemble the subversive below-stairs crew of Beaumarchais' 1784 The Marriage of Figaro.

She Stoops to Conquer; Henry V, The Winter's Tale – review 2012

The complex class conflicts emerge in the below-stairs chatter among servants and pointed observations of the wealthy.

Emma MMF: Flashback review 2010

Steve Pemberton adds to the merriment as the expostulating Mr Hardcastle, the transitions between scenes are filled with below-stairs choruses, created by Ben and Max Ringham, and, in Mark Thompson's design, the production looks handsome: one particular moment, when the scene shifts from a moon-dappled wood to a domestic interior, is even strangely moving.

She Stoops To Conquer 2012

Young Skeeter Emma Stone coaxes tales of rage from the below-stairs help and ruffles the feathers of the town's fragrant, Stepford-style racists.

The Help – review 2011

No editors or journalists were ever invited to this sort of affair: to Mrs Robin Dawkins - acting as Chairman - they were merely the below-stairs hired help.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

Just what a fellow needs to hear when he's coming to the boil, you'll agree - but I'm the lad who bulled a Malay charmer in the midst of a battle on the Batang Lupar, regard-less of shot and steel - and now the wicked bitch was halfway down my throat, and rummaging below-stairs with an expert hand.

THE NUMBERS 2010

Unsettling below-stairs rumors swirl about ghosts, a madwoman roaming the halls, and Parry's involvement with a league of sorcerers who torture fairies for sport.

Archive 2010-01-01 2010

While she had cried out her grief, the noises to either side of her disappeared, leaving only the sounds of activity below-stairs.

red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

The second below-stairs gallery is devoted to 21 drawings from the albums Goya filled during the last decades of his long life.

Iberian Treasures in Chalk and Ink Karen Wilkin 2010

And then when we got below-stairs and he heard the beasts bellowin 'like thunder, I thought he'd dirtied his breeches.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010