Playbill
1865 (printed)
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Playbill for the Theatre Royal, Town Hall, Oxford, advertising the 're-production (for one night) of the highly popular drama entitled The Ticket of Leave Man', Friday 4 August 1865, with Henry Irving as Robert Brierley (a Lancashire Lad), followed by a Grand Pas de Deux by the Misses C. and F. Taylor, and concluding with the 'laughable farce' Sarah's Young Man by W.Suter. The playbill aslo advertises the programme for Saturday 5 August, of the 'original drama' Plot and Passion by Tom Taylor, with Henry Irving as De Neuville, followed by 'Characteristic Dancing by the Misses C. & F. Taylor', concluding with the farce The Widow's Victim by Charles Selby.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Printed paper |
| Brief description | Letterpress playbill for The Theatre Royal, Town Hall, Oxford, advertising The Ticket of Leave Man with Henry Irving as Robert Brierley, followed by Sarah's Young Man, 4 August 1865; and Plot & Passion with Henry Irving as De Neuville, and Widow's Victim, 5 August 1865. |
| Physical description | Letterpress broadsheet playbill, printed in black ink on very flimsy white paper. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
| Credit line | Given by the British Theatre Museum Association |
| Object history | Part of the Henry Irving Archive, given to the British Theatre Museum Association in January 1959. |
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| Summary | Playbill for the Theatre Royal, Town Hall, Oxford, advertising the 're-production (for one night) of the highly popular drama entitled The Ticket of Leave Man', Friday 4 August 1865, with Henry Irving as Robert Brierley (a Lancashire Lad), followed by a Grand Pas de Deux by the Misses C. and F. Taylor, and concluding with the 'laughable farce' Sarah's Young Man by W.Suter. The playbill aslo advertises the programme for Saturday 5 August, of the 'original drama' Plot and Passion by Tom Taylor, with Henry Irving as De Neuville, followed by 'Characteristic Dancing by the Misses C. & F. Taylor', concluding with the farce The Widow's Victim by Charles Selby. |
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| Accession number | S.319-2001 |
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| Record created | April 23, 2001 |
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