Short account of Governor George Gipps' attendance in the audience at the Royal Victoria Theatre in Sydney, New South Wales, on 7 June 1838. The writer, possibly the Sydney Gazette's theatre critic, William Kerr, opines on one of the plays performed, Brutus, that 'it would certainly have been difficult to select a worse performed piece from the many that have been produced on the Sydney stage.'
Advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 9 June 1838 to include 'Buckstone's Drama, entitled The Duchess de la Vaubaliere' and the 'Melo-Drama, called The King and the Deserter'.
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