£75.00
Date 14/01/1889
London Grove House Assembly Rooms – Annual Smoking Concert 1889
An original single sheet programme for the Fourth Annual Smoking Concert at Grove House Assembly Rooms, London, dated 14 January 1889. Performers included Henry Garrod, Alf Kent, Stanley West, Harry Gilbert, Frank Bliss and Geo Mepstead.
Smoking concerts were a popular Victorian entertainment, usually evenings of songs, recitations and comic turns for an audience allowed to smoke throughout.
Ephemeral single sheets like this rarely survived, making it a charming piece of Victorian theatre memorabilia.
| Production | Fourth Annual Smoking Concert |
|---|---|
| Venue | Grove House Assembly Rooms – London |
| Cast | Henry Garrod – Alf Kent, Stanley West – Harry Gilbert, Frank Bliss – Geo Mepstead. |
Condition: V Good, cfldlcr, a few tiny edge ni's, a 2" split on the fold
Did you know?
- Smoking concerts were typically held by clubs, societies and workplaces, and their audiences were mostly men.
- The tradition lives on in the name of the Cambridge Footlights’ ‘smokers’, informal comedy evenings for new material.
SKU: T02834
