Savoy Theatre

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Leisure and Society Oscar Wilde
Gilbert and Sullivan 's comic opera Patience opened at the Savoy Theatre ; it mocked OW as the fleshly poet Bunthorne (in, coincidentally, the first English theatre production to use electric lighting on stage).
Ellmann, Richard. Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988.
134-5
Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
90, chronology
Occupation Viola Tree
For her first major operatic role, VT sang the part of Eurydice in a production of Gluck 's Orpheus at the Savoy Theatre in London.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(16 November 1938): 9
Performance of text Christopher St John
CSJ 's play Du Barri (whose protagonist was well known as a mistress to Louis XV ) was first performed at the Savoy Theatre , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
928
Performance of text Christopher St John
CSJ 's and Charles Thursby 's one-act play The Coronation, in which a monarch is converted to socialism on his way to be crowned, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Savoy Theatre , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
928
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
112
Performance of text Christopher St John
CSJ 's translation from the pioneering woman playwright Hrosvit, Hrotsvit, or Roswitha , a one-act play called Paphnutius, was first performed by the Pioneer Players at the Savoy Theatre , London.
Nicoll, Allardyce. English Drama, 1900-1930. Cambridge University Press, 1973.
928
Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998.
221

Timeline

10 October 1881
The Savoy Theatre in the Strand was opened to perform Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
5 January 1884
Sir W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan 's Princess Ida has its first performance, at the Savoy Theatre in London.
14 March 1885
The Mikado; Or, The Town of Titipu, by Gilbert and Sullivan , was first performed: its Japanese setting was topical, since Japan had first opened to trade with the world two years previously.
1907
Harley Granville-Barker 's play Waste, designed to have been the centre-piece of his ambitious new season at the Savoy Theatre , was banned by the lord chamberlain largely because a death from illegal abortion...
September 1930
Shakespeare's Othello opened at the Savoy Theatre starring Paul Robeson and Peggy Ashcroft : it shocked some in the audience on racist grounds.

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