£100.00
Date 15/04/1896
Pontefract Cricket Club Yorkshire Theatre – Betsy Baker – 1896
A single sheet antique theatre programme for Betsy Baker at the Pontefract Cricket Club Theatre, Yorkshire, dated 15 April 1896.
Performers named include Harold Butler, Miss Moxon, Miss Percival, Mrs Osmand, Mr Clayton Smith and Mr M W Curtis. Betsy Baker was a popular one-act Victorian farce by John Maddison Morton, a favourite with amateur companies.
Victorian amateur theatricals are rarely documented, which makes this a lovely piece of local theatre memorabilia among old theatre programmes.
| Production | Betsy Baker |
|---|---|
| Venue | Pontefract Cricket Club Theatre – Yorkshire |
| Cast | Harold Butler – Miss Moxon, Miss Percival – Mrs Osmand, Mr Clayton Smith – Mr M W Curtis. |
Condition: V good, cfld, lcr, a few tiny edge ni's
Did you know?
- John Maddison Morton is best known for the farce Box and Cox, later adapted by Arthur Sullivan as Cox and Box.
- Short farces such as Betsy Baker were often staged as curtain-raisers or afterpieces in Victorian theatre.
SKU: T02998
