Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Date: 1827-1856

By: Webster, Kenneth Athol, 1906-1967

Reference: Eph-D-WEBSTER-2

Description: Includes: Surrey Rotunda. Miss Lucinda Smith benefit, 6 July 1827 - includes scenes from "School for scandal", ... "The duenna", "A Bavarian girl", "Exchange no robbery!", "The rival soldiers" Theatre, Maidstone. Mr C Freeman the American giant ... [to appear in] "Monster, or the fate of Frankenstein", ... to be followed by "Day after the wedding" , after which the giant will give his celebrated illustrations of the Grecian Statues ... to conclude with "Raising the wind". 11 May 1843 Theatre, Boston; proprietor and manager John Douglas. "Ellen Wareham!" ... "Illustrious stranger"30 May 1853. ... Belphegor"; ... "Law and logic" 31 May 1853 Theatre, Boston; proprietor and manager John Douglas. "St Augustine's Priory" by Mr T Fricker; ... the laughable farce "Sergeant's wedding" ... "My wife's dentist". 8-9 June 1853 Royal Princess's Theatre, Oxford Street. The Corsican brothers ... "Harlequin and the Miller and his men!", ... 27 January 1854 . Double broadsheet Theatre, Farndon Road, Newark. Benefit of Mr and Mrs [William] Lovegrove. "King John" from the invasion of France to his death in Newark Castle. 23 May 1856 Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Mr Charles Mathews ... Grand play of W J Robson esq; "Great gun trick", "Taking by storm", "Little Toddlekins"; "Harlequin King nonsense","The seven ages of man", "The abode of love", "Bright realms of perpetual summer". Double broadsheet [1856] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, sizes up to 700 mm. Provenance: x

Date: 1816

Reference: Eph-D-BRITISH-THEATRE-1816-01

Description: An arangement of text of varying type faces, advertising "a new romantick operatick ballet spectacle (founded on the recent discovery of a numerous colony, formed by, and descended from, the mutineers of the 'Bounty' frigate)". Following productions of a farce, then Garrick's Jubilee ode performed by Miss Nash in honour of Shakespeare, are listed below. The actors in all the productions are named, and subsequent future productions are listed at the lower edge. News of the Bounty mutiny reached England in 1790. American Captain Mayhew Folger discovered the mutineers on Pitcairn in 1808, but the news was not widespread, and it was in September 1814 that two British ships rediscovered the island and its community. Mr Byrne (as composer) and his son Oscar Byrne (as a performer) had been involved in ballet productions with Drury Lane Theatre from as early as 1805 (see “Monthly Mirror” vol 20 (1805), page 203). Oscar Byrne and Miss Smith would often perform Pas de Deux. (See collection of theatrical broadsheets from Drury Lane, at https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=sNYIAAAAQAAJ (retrieved 17 September 2016) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 13.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Letterpress, on muslin-backed rag paper, 610 x 412 mm.