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.
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 ...