£125.00
Date 10/12/1891
London Adelphi Theatre – The English Rose – 1891
An original Victorian programme for The English Rose at the Adelphi Theatre, London, dated 10 December 1891. The cast includes Bassett Roe, Lionel Rignold, Mary Rorke, Clara Jecks, Charles Dalton and Olga Brandon.
The English Rose was a romantic melodrama by George R. Sims and Robert Buchanan, typical of the stirring sensation pieces for which the Adelphi was famous.
Programmes from the 1890s survive in far smaller numbers than later ones, making this a lovely piece for anyone collecting old theatre programmes and Victorian West End history.
| Production | The English Rose |
|---|---|
| Venue | Adelphi Theatre – London |
| Cast | Bassett Roe – Lionel Rignold, Mary Rorke – Clara Jecks, Charles Dalton – Olga Brandon |
Condition: V Good, Vlcr
Did you know?
- The Adelphi was so associated with lavish melodrama in the Victorian era that the term ‘Adelphi melodrama’ became a byword for the genre.
- The theatre first opened in 1806 as the Sans Pareil; the present Adelphi building on the Strand dates from 1930.
- Co-author George R. Sims was also a celebrated journalist and poet, best remembered for the ballad ‘Christmas Day in the Workhouse’.
SKU: T02063
