The Lighthouse [playbill].

Record ID: 
290092
Accession number: 
MA 7607.19
Published: 
[England : s.n., 1855]
Description: 
1 broadside ; 40.8 x 23.6 cm
Notes: 

Housed with three additional playbills: MA 1351.3 (The Frozen Deep) and MA 1352.1-2 (The Lighthouse).
Part of a collection of 21 documents and playbills of Charles Dickens relating primarily to his amateur theatricals. Items are cataloged individually; see related records for full description.
Printed in red and black.
Privately staged in Dickens' London house. He "assumes here the nom de plume of 'Mr. Crummles'"--Cf. Podeschi.
See also MA 1352.

Summary: 

Broadside text reads: The smallest theatre in the world! Tavistock House. Lessee and manager, Mr. Crummles. On Tuesday evening, June 19th, 1855, will be presented an entirely new and original domestic melo-drama, in two acts, by Mr. Wilkie Collins, now first performed, called The lighthouse ... to conclude with the Guild Amateur-Company's farce, in one act, by Mr. Crummles and Mark Lemon, Mr. Nightingale's diary ...

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