A detailed advertisement announcing the opening of the theatre and the performance on 26 March 1838 of: William Shakespeare's 'celebrated Tragedy, entitled Othello' and the 'popular Farce, called The Middy Ashore' [William Bayle Bernard, 1836].
The theatre was subsequently named the Royal Victoria Theatre.
John Hubert Plunkett, the New South Wales attorney general, objected to serving as a steward with George Cavenagh for the 1838 St Patrick's Day Ball in Sydney, New South Wales. At the request of Cavenagh, Plunkett laid out his objections in a letter which is published as part of this column. Both Plunkett's letter and the unattributed response (probably by Cavenagh) are measured. Plunkett's objections are political rather than personal and stem from Cavenagh's role as the editor of the Sydney Gazette. Cavenagh concludes that it is 'regretted that we do not ... banish politics and political feelings from our balls and drawing rooms' and that 'Irishmen can never meet, whether to make merry or to mourn, without "a bit of a row".'
With the imminent opening of Joseph Wyatt's new theatre, the Royal Victoria, the author (probably William Kerr) admonishes the management of the Theatre Royal, Sydney for failing to 'attract and amuse the public' and for bringing the actors' benefits forward 'by way of providing [against the loss of monies], from the sums paid by the performers for the use of the house' The author concludes, '[t]he Theatre has been paying the proprietress [(Sarah Levey)] very handsomely since it was opened ; if she cannot afford to enter the field with Mr. Wyatt, let her close the house at once, paying the penalty under which she is bound to the performers ...'
Advertisement for performance at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, on 22 March 1838 of: ‘the Petite Comedy, entitled Charles the Second, or, The Merry Monarch’ [John Howard Payne, 1824]. 'In the course of the Piece [Charles the Second], Mrs. [Anne] Clarke will sing the favorite Songs of 'Why did I Love,' the 'Banks of the Blue Moselle,' and the duet of 'My Pretty Page look afar' with Mrs [Maria] Taylor. The performance concluded with the Historical Drama in three Acts, called Tower of Nesle ’.
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