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...

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10 October 1881

The Savoy Theatre in the Strand was opened to perform Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
Mander, Raymond, and Joe Mitchenson. The Theatres of London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963.
174-6

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.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
II: 1102

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.
Sadie, Stanley, editor. The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Macmillan, 1992, 4 vols., http://Guelph.
III: 386

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.
Billington, Michael. Peggy Ashcroft, 1907-1991. Mandarin, 1991.
37-8, 41

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