The Larboard Fin is included in AustLit because it was produced in Australian theatres during the colonial era.
Allardyce Nicoll lists a play entitled The Larboard Fin; or, Twelve Months Since by an unknown author, and gives a performance date of 1837. The British Library catalogue lists The Larboard Fin; or, Twelve Months Since by W. H. Wills published in vol. 13 of Cumberland's Minor Theatre series in 1828. The advertisement for a repeat performance of the play by the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 8 December 1838 has the title The Larboard Fin; or, The Wrecker's Daughter. AustLit has not yet established which play was produced in Sydney in 1838.
Source: Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of English Drama 1660-1900 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966.
Performed at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, November 1838.
Advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 27 December 1838 of All for Love; or, The Lost Pleiad, and Larboard Fin; or, The Wrecker's Daughter.
Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 11 December 1838 of Valsha; or, The Slave Queen and The Larboard Fin; or, The Wrecker's Daughter.
Review of performances at the Royal Victoria Theatre on 8 December1838.
Review of performances at the Royal Victoria Theatre on 8 December1838.
Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 8 December 1838 of 'for the first time in this Colony, a domestic Drama, entitled John Stafford; or The Murder at the Black Farm, In which Mrs [Maria] Taylor and Mr. [J. H. S.] Lee will make their first appearance this Season' and the 'Nautical Drama, called The Larboard Fin; or, The Wrecker's Daughter'.
Advertisement for performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 11 December 1838 of Valsha; or, The Slave Queen and The Larboard Fin; or, The Wrecker's Daughter.
Advertisement for a performance at the Royal Victoria Theatre, Sydney, on 27 December 1838 of All for Love; or, The Lost Pleiad, and Larboard Fin; or, The Wrecker's Daughter.
An overview of performances for the last part of the 1838 season at the Royal Victoria Theatre in Sydney. People mentioned include John Lazar and the machinist James Belmore. Three short reports on the performance of the actor Jacobs, the play to be presented that evening (All for Love; or, The Lost Pleiad), and the welfare of Maria Taylor, who had fallen through a trap door on the stage of the Royal Victoria, appear at the end of the main column.