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Issue Details: First known date: 1852... 1852 Sink or Swim
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Notes

  • Thomas Morton's Sink or Swim is included in AustLit because it was produced in Australian theatres during the colonial era.

Production Details

  • 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.)

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First known date: 1852
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Works about this Work

Royal Victoria Theatre : No Thoroughfare, &c. 1868 single work advertisement
— Appears in: The Freeman's Journal , 18 July vol. 19 no. 1319 1868; (p. 15)

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.
Royal Victoria Theatre : Sink or Swim, &c. 1868 single work advertisement
— Appears in: The Empire , 10 August no. 5217 1868; (p. 1) The Empire , 11 August no. 5218 1868; (p. 1)

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'.
Royal Victoria Theatre 1868 single work review
— Appears in: The Empire , 21 July no. 5201 1868; (p. 2)
— Review of Colonial Experience Walter H. Cooper , 1868 single work drama ; Sink or Swim Thomas Morton , 1852 single work drama

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.
Royal Victoria Theatre : Colonial Experience, &c. 1868 single work advertisement
— Appears in: The Empire , 16 July no. 5197 1868; (p. 1) The Empire , 17 July no. 5198 1868; (p. 1) The Empire , 18 July no. 5199 1868; (p. 1) The Empire , 20 July no. 5200 1868; (p. 1)

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.'
Royal Victoria Theatre 1868 single work review
— Appears in: The Empire , 21 July no. 5201 1868; (p. 2)
— Review of Colonial Experience Walter H. Cooper , 1868 single work drama ; Sink or Swim Thomas Morton , 1852 single work drama

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.
Royal Victoria Theatre : Colonial Experience, &c. 1868 single work advertisement
— Appears in: The Empire , 16 July no. 5197 1868; (p. 1) The Empire , 17 July no. 5198 1868; (p. 1) The Empire , 18 July no. 5199 1868; (p. 1) The Empire , 20 July no. 5200 1868; (p. 1)

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.'
Royal Victoria Theatre : Sink or Swim, &c. 1868 single work advertisement
— Appears in: The Empire , 10 August no. 5217 1868; (p. 1) The Empire , 11 August no. 5218 1868; (p. 1)

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'.
Royal Victoria Theatre : No Thoroughfare, &c. 1868 single work advertisement
— Appears in: The Freeman's Journal , 18 July vol. 19 no. 1319 1868; (p. 15)

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.
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