Victorian Fancies
Boucicault’s London Assurance was written in 1841 – the year of Dickens’ Old Curiosity Shop, the founding of Punch magazine and the Parisian premiere of Giselle – and a time when hundreds of theatres were being built to house a flourishing industry. Now largely forgotten, this is the chance to discover more about the age of melodrama, music hall and richly comic drama – with extracts, songs, discussion and a special presentation of Boucicault’s version of The Corsican Brothers, performed in a Victorian Pollock’s Toy Theatre.
Guests include Richard Fawkes, author of Dion Boucicault - A Biography, and there will be a rehearsed reading of an extract from a new version of Boucicault's The Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Mark Ravenhill.
Tickets £10
Running Time: 2 hours
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May 2010
- Sat 15 10:30 am
