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Recording of Zoom lecture related to Marisa's performative lecture- Showwoman Ritual Action. Professor Vanessa Toulmin appears as a collaborator. Recording transferred to the NFCA via Zoom.

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Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Also Romantic opera, Amelie or, The Love test and others. Printed by W.S. Johnson 'Nassau Press', 6 Nassau Street, Soho.

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Handbills for travelling shows, exhibitions and performances at Royal Aquarium, Westminster and Pall Mall.

Scope and Contents A Dyspeptic Illussion by F.C. Burnand at 309 Regent Street, Royal Polytechnic. Colour illustration. A play in which too many curries prawns eaten by one of the party at lunch time result in them having dyspeptic illusions. It is an opportunity to show Professor Peppers ghost like illusions. Metempsychosis depended for its effect on a carefully constructed chamber within the stage area, which could be diagonally bisected by a large silvered mirror. As the mirror slid into place, objects...

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Savage Club Amateur Performance at Royal Lyceum Theatre. Amateur performance in benefit of the Widow & Family of the late Artist & Engraver, Mr E. Landellis. Various acts including ‘The Wreck Ashore’, followed by a New & Original Burlesque.

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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. With comedy from Aimpson & Co. Printed by W. Wright.

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A collection of glass-mounted slides relating to German history, literature, theatre and landscape. Ernest Arthur Seemann was a printer and publisher of art and history books, and these slides likely contain the images that were used in E. A. Seeman's publications.

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Papers from the Sheffield Educational Settlement during the period of Arnold Freeman’s wardenship (1918-55). The records are incomplete, particularly for the 1930s, but include correspondence, minute books, account books, some published material, play files and information about lectures, classes and activities at the Settlement.

For further details of this collection please see the finding aid/box list in the External Documents section below.

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A collection of programmes and cast lists for performances at various Sheffield theatres, primarily The Playhouse, as well as The Crucible, The Lyceum, Sheffield City Hall and others.

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Saint John Preaching in the Wilderness, at 213 Piccadilly. 18ft High - 14ft Wide, visited by royalty, 'one of the most wonderful productions of the age'. Printed by J.W. Peel’s Steam Press, 74, New Cut, Lambeth.

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Handbills for travelling exhibitions and sideshows at Strand, Covent Garden, Charing Cross and Fleet Street.

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Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Also pantomime ‘Harlequin and the Magick Rose: or Beauty and the Beast’. Printed by W. Reynolds, Denmark Court, Strand.

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Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. Also new farce, ‘Teddy the Tiler’ and others. Printed by W. Reynolds, 9 Denmark Court, Strand.

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Black, white and red type on black and white background on front advertising acts.

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The archive at Sheffield contains 170 CD-ROMs of interviews with theatre workers and audience members, including Glenda Jackson, Brian Rix, Susan Engel and Michael Frayn. There is also a collection of copies of correspondence between Gyorgy Lengyel and Michel and Suria Saint Denis, and between Gyorgy Lengyel and Sir John Gielgud, dating from 1958 to 1999.

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'Theatergeschichte'

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The Soldier's Daughter, comedy in 3 acts - The Sleeping Draught, farce in one act - Number Nip in Harlequin and the Gnome King - Beverley’s Grand Moving Diorama at Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.

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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.

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

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