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Theatre

 Subject
Subject Source: Unesco Thesaurus

Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

Theatre Royal Handbill, 9 June 1819

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 3: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.317a
Scope and Contents

Miss Clara Fisher, Lilliputian Wonder - King Richard III - The Falls of Clyde - at Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. Engaged with her sister to perform for three nights only.

Dates: 9 June 1819
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / John Bramwell Taylor Collection / Handbills / Exhibition and Entertainments Handbills

Theatre Royal Handbill, 10 June 1819

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 3: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.317b
Scope and Contents

Miss Clara Fisher, Lilliputian Wonder - Merchant of Venice - Bombastes Furioso - at Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. Engaged with her sister to perform for three nights only.

Dates: 10 June 1819
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / John Bramwell Taylor Collection / Handbills / Exhibition and Entertainments Handbills

Theatre Royal Handbill, 11 June 1819

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 3: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.317c
Scope and Contents

Miss Clara Fisher, Lilliputian Wonder - Bombastes Furioso - Douglas - at Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. Engaged with her sister to perform for three nights only.

Dates: 11 June 1819
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / John Bramwell Taylor Collection / Handbills / Exhibition and Entertainments Handbills

Theatre Royal Handbill, 12 June 1819

 Item — Box John Barmwell Taylor Box 3: Series 178T1
Reference code: 178T1.317d
Scope and Contents

Miss Clara Fisher, Lilliputian Wonder - King Richard III - Lilliput - at Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. Engaged with her sister to perform for three nights only.

Dates: 12 June 1819
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / John Bramwell Taylor Collection / Handbills / Exhibition and Entertainments Handbills

Theatre Royal Playbills Collection

 Collection
Reference code: PE 18
Scope and Contents A selection of printed playbills issued by the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, and the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1789-1838.The collection consists of playbills issued by the two Royal Patent theatres of London, the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden and the Theatre Royal , Drury Lane, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Covent Garden theatre section begins in the year of the French Revolution, 1789, and announces a comic opera with a French name Fontainbleau together with a...
Dates: 1789 - 1838
Found in: Special Collections and Archives

To Mr & Mrs Great Britain Monograph, 26 June 1957

 Item — Box Norman Family Box 1: Series 178B19; Series 178I13
Reference code: 178B19.12
Scope and Contents

Monograph about the stage in England, Hal Denver’s name typed at foot, typescript, 1p.

Dates: 26 June 1957
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Norman Family Collection / Monographs, Articles and Manuscripts

Trade and Advertising Material, c1948 - 1966

 Series
Reference code: 178I13
Scope and Contents

Advertising material directly and indirectly related to the performance work of Ralph Norman (aka Hal Denver), and his wife, Olga Norman, who had a knife throwing act together, often known as The Sensational Denvers.

Dates: c1948 - 1966
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Norman Family Collection

Transmission Leaflet, c2010 - 2020

 Item — Box Marisa Carnesky Box 3: Series 178H39; Series 178Z29
Reference code: 178Z29.9
Scope and Contents

Yellow nad orange type on blue background on front cover, inside black and blue type on white background listing acts and some black and white images

Dates: c2010 - 2020
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Marisa Carnesky Collection / Various

Unfinished Histories Collection

 Fonds
Reference code: 395
Scope and Contents

A collection of CDs and DVDs recording interviews with those involved with the alternative theatre movement in the late 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, along with related material.

Dates: 2007 - 2017
Found in: Special Collections and Archives

Various, c1990 - 2020

 Series
Reference code: 178Z29
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

This collection contains research material, business records, grant applications, project planning documents, contracts, programmes, posters, handbills, newpaper cuttings and other records relating to Marisa Carnesky's career as a showwoman. The records comprise the production and travelling of Marisa's shows including Carnesky's Ghost train, SmutFest, Jewess Tattoess, Dragon Ladies, Chamber of Horrors, Dystopia, Magic War, The Incredible Bleeding Woman and Tarot Drome.

Dates: c1990 - 2020
Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Marisa Carnesky Collection

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