£125.00
Date 15/04/1893
London Avenue Theatre – The Silver Shell – 1893
A Victorian theatre programme from the Avenue Theatre, London, dated 15 April 1893, for The Silver Shell, with Cecil York, Edmund Grace, Florence Bennett, Empsie Bowman, Adrienne Dairolles and Howard Sturge.
Programmes from the Avenue in the 1890s capture a lively period for the theatre close to Charing Cross. A scarce example of old theatre programmes from a London theatre now known by a different name.
| Production | The Silver Shell |
|---|---|
| Venue | Avenue Theatre – London |
| Cast | Cecil York – Edmund Grace, Florence Bennett – Empsie Bowman, Adrienne Dairolles – Howard Sturge. |
Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, a few tiny binder pin holes on the edge
Did you know?
- The Avenue Theatre in Northumberland Avenue opened in 1882.
- It was renamed the Playhouse in 1907 after being rebuilt following a roof collapse at neighbouring Charing Cross station.
- The Avenue staged the first productions of Shaw’s Arms and the Man and Yeats’s The Land of Heart’s Desire in 1894.
SKU: T02551
