Whitley Bay Kursaal Theatre – Doormats + Jane – 1929

About this Doormats + Jane theatre programme

An original programme from the Kursaal Theatre, Whitley Bay, for the week of 8 July 1929, presenting Doormats and Jane. The company includes Kenneth Hewson, Maidie Read, Edith Bramble, Zara Zinnia, Alex Keith and Kenneth Broadbent. Seaside repertory companies like this one changed their plays frequently to keep summer audiences returning. Programmes from 1920s seaside theatres are an evocative part of British theatre history and highly collectable old theatre programmes.

Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, ticks at names, a tiny rust mark (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• Jane was a popular farce by Harry Nicholls and William Lestocq, first staged in London in 1890.
• A ‘kursaal’ (German for ‘cure hall’) was a name often given to seaside entertainment buildings in the Edwardian era.