[GOLD RUSH] New Holborn Theatre Royal … This Evening, Saturday June 8th … The Antipodes! Or, The Ups and Downs of Life. By Tom Taylor, Esq.

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Author of Still Waters Run Deep , Plot and Passion , The Ticket of Leave Man c. c. The Extensive Scenery designed and painted by Mr. William Telbin, Mr. Telbin, Jun., Mr. H. P. Hall and Assistants. The Appointments by Mr. A. Lloyds. Costumes by Mr. S. May. The Music composed and arranged by Mr. G. Richardson [London] : s.n., [1867]. Programme, small octavo (180 x 115 mm), [4] pp; embossed decorative borders, centre pages with full cast list and detailed descriptions of Scenery in the Drama ; Act II, which is titled Australia , takes place en route to the diggings in a Canvas Town, with distant View of Melbourne ; Act III is entitled At the Diggings , and includes the scenes In the Bush , Near Ballarat , In the Bush Once More and Dead Man s Gully by Moonlight ; an; rear side with advertisement for Rimmel s Perfumes; in very good condition, with some toning and a short paper reinforcement at foot of gutter. Rare opening night programme for the play Antipodes! Or, The Ups and Downs of Life, by the popular English dramatist Tom Taylor (1817-1880), at London s New Holborn Theatre Royal on 8 June 1867. Most of this melodrama is set on the Victorian goldfields. Taylor, who was also a critic and became editor of Punch , was a prolific playwright: over 100 of his plays were staged during his career, the most famous of which during the nineteenth century was Our American Cousin (1858). The first-ever production of Antipodes! starred Mr. Westland, Mr. Sam Emery, Mrs. Watts (née Miss E.

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