£135.00
Date 06/06/1881
London Prince Of Wales Theatre – The Colonel – 1881
An original Victorian theatre programme for The Colonel at the Prince Of Wales Theatre, London, dated 6 June 1881. The cast included Charles Fitzroy, Rowland Buckstone, Myra Holme, Amy Roselle, Rose Roberts and Leigh Murray.
F. C. Burnand’s comedy satirised the fashionable Aesthetic Movement, with its languid devotees of lilies, blue china and ‘art for art’s sake’.
A witty slice of Victorian culture and a fine example of old theatre programmes from the 1880s.
| Production | The Colonel |
|---|---|
| Venue | Prince Of Wales Theatre – London |
| Cast | Charles Fitzroy – Rowland Buckstone, Myra Holme – Amy Roselle, Rose Roberts – Leigh Murray. |
Genuine Theatre Programme / Memorabilia.
Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, spine is half split, a tiny edge split
Did you know?
- The Colonel opened in February 1881, a couple of months before Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, which mocked the same Aesthetic craze.
- F. C. Burnand was the editor of Punch magazine from 1880 to 1906.
- This Prince of Wales’s Theatre stood in Tottenham Street, on the site later occupied by the Scala Theatre.
SKU: T02845
