Savoy Theatre

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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.
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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.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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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.
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Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell.
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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
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.
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Booth, Michael R. Theatre in the Victorian Age. Cambridge University Press.
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Timeline

10 October 1881: The Savoy Theatre in the Strand was opened...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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