According to the writer there was some agitation amongst John Lazar's Theatre Royal, Sydney company when they erroneously thought the Governor was about to attend a performance of the overseas play, Catching an Heiress.
Short report on the employment of Mrs Cousens ' ... formerly Miss Grant, a celebrated vocalist, lately arrived by the Louisa Campbell, at Launceston [Van Diemen's Land], for [Joseph Wyatt's] new Theatre, Pitt-street [Sydney, New South Wales]. Mrs Cousens, when Miss Grant, belonged to the Drury Lane company, London.'
Short reports on theatrical life in Sydney.
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