£47.50

Date 13/12/1898

London Grand Theatre – Charlotte Corday – 1898

An original Victorian theatre programme for Charlotte Corday at the Grand Theatre, London, dated 13 December 1898. The cast includes Mrs Brown Potter, Arthur Wood, Walter Gay, Miss Ailsa Craig, Ernest Elton and Henry Lee.

The play dramatises the story of Charlotte Corday, the young Frenchwoman who assassinated the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat in his bath in 1793. A fine 1890s historical drama programme for collectors of old theatre programmes.

ProductionCharlotte Corday
VenueGrand Theatre – London
CastMrs Brown Potter – Arthur Wood, Walter Gay – Miss Ailsa Craig, Ernest Elton – Henry Lee

Condition: Good, cfld, lcr, a few edge nicks/tears, hole at staple, nof

Did you know?

  • Mrs Brown Potter, born Cora Urquhart in New Orleans, was an American society beauty who became a professional actress.
  • Charlotte Corday was guillotined in July 1793, four days after killing Marat.
  • Jacques-Louis David’s painting The Death of Marat immortalised the assassination.

SKU: T01958