This is a joyous time.

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"I wanted it to feel like you're inside the tissue of this time, this amazingly dense, combustive but joyous time, " Haynes says.

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"The evening only achieves the kind of deliriously silly and joyous lift-off that you really, really want from this kind of show - and more than once - at the encore, " summed up Paul Taylor in The Independent.

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"Joyous" is not a word you think of about paintings of large groups, but this is an atmosphere Zoffany could capture in his treatment of crowds.

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