First produced at the Olympic Theatre, The Strand, London, 2 August 1852.
Performed at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, July 1868 by 'gentlemen amateurs connected with the Sydney Press, consisting of the literary staff of Punch, the Empire, and Herald'. (Source: 'Royal Victoria Theatre.' Empire. 5201 (21 July 1868): 2.)
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's No Thoroughfare and John Maddison Morton's The Two Buzzards; or, Whitebait at Greenwich on 18 July 1868.
Also advertised is Walter H. Cooper's 20 July 1868 benefit evening, featuring Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim and Cooper's own play Colonial Experience, and the productions of Dion Boucicault's Janet Pride and Samuel Beazley's The Lottery Ticket on 21 and 22 July 1868.
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre's 'complimentary benefit to Mr. W. Lloyd, for seven years stage manager to Lyster's Royal Italian and English Opera Company', 11 August 1868. The benefit includes productions of Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim and James Robinson Planche's The Loan and the Lover, together with a 'grand concert'.
A brief review of the 20 July 1868 Prince of Wales Opera House production of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim.
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim on 20 July 1868. The evening was a 'complimentary benefit ... to Walter H. Cooper'.
The advertisement notes that characters in Sink or Swim are to be 'sustained by gentlemen connected with the Sydney press' and that 'a prologue written for the occasion by Frank Hutchinson, Esq., will be delivered by Miss Rosa Cooper.'
A brief review of the 20 July 1868 Prince of Wales Opera House production of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim.
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Walter Cooper's Colonial Experience and Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim on 20 July 1868. The evening was a 'complimentary benefit ... to Walter H. Cooper'.
The advertisement notes that characters in Sink or Swim are to be 'sustained by gentlemen connected with the Sydney press' and that 'a prologue written for the occasion by Frank Hutchinson, Esq., will be delivered by Miss Rosa Cooper.'
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre's 'complimentary benefit to Mr. W. Lloyd, for seven years stage manager to Lyster's Royal Italian and English Opera Company', 11 August 1868. The benefit includes productions of Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim and James Robinson Planche's The Loan and the Lover, together with a 'grand concert'.
An advertisement for the Royal Victoria Theatre production of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins's No Thoroughfare and John Maddison Morton's The Two Buzzards; or, Whitebait at Greenwich on 18 July 1868.
Also advertised is Walter H. Cooper's 20 July 1868 benefit evening, featuring Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim and Cooper's own play Colonial Experience, and the productions of Dion Boucicault's Janet Pride and Samuel Beazley's The Lottery Ticket on 21 and 22 July 1868.