An advertisement for the opening of the new Royal Victoria Theatre and a performance of William Shakespeare's 'Tragedy in five Acts, entitled Othello', the 'popular Song, “Paddy’s Wedding”’ and 'the laughable Farce, called The Middy Ashore', at the Royal Victoria Theatre on 26 March 1838.
The advertisement publishes the names of the actors against the characters for each of the plays and that the theatre is now known as the Royal Victoria Theatre. Performance days and times and prices are advertised.
The version of the advertisement published in the Commercial Journal and Advertiser includes the names of the orchestra leader and principal flautist, the instruments of the orchestra, the names of the mechanists (stage workers) and scene painters and the wardrobe mistress.
'Previous to the rise of the Curtain, an Appropriate Address, by Mr Spencer' (Albert Spencer) is advertised in the Commercial Journal.
