Galway Court Theatre – Ben-Ma-Chree – Ireland – early 1900s

About this Ben-Ma-Chree theatre programme

An original programme for Ben-Ma-Chree at the Galway Court Theatre, Ireland, believed to date from the early 1900s. The cast includes Kitty Breen, George Preston, Dennis Hogan, Edith Brooks, Mina Johnson and George Mallin, members of a touring company bringing popular drama to the west of Ireland. Irish provincial programmes from this period rarely survive, making this a scarce and characterful example of old theatre programmes.

Condition: Fair, cfld, lcr, spine is half split, has edge ni's (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• ‘Ben-my-Chree’ is Manx Gaelic for ‘girl (or woman) of my heart’, and was the title of a Hall Caine and Wilson Barrett drama based on Caine’s novel The Deemster.
• Touring stock companies of the period often carried a repertoire of melodramas, playing a different piece on successive nights.