Description
Date: 1904
Theatre: The Imperial Theatre
Performance: Miss Elizabeth’s Prisoner
Main Actors: Lewis Waller, Lottie Venne
This Imperial theatre programme is a single sheet of cream card with a vertical spinal fold and printed with purple ink. Page 4 has interesting advertisements relevant to the decade, accompanied by some detailed illustrations.
The front cover has a detailed and regal illustration resembling a coat of arms.The centre of the illustration introduces the current Lessee and Manager of the Imperial Theatre, Mr Lewis Waller.
Miss Elizabeth’s Prisoner is a romantic comedy in a prologue and three acts, written by Robert Neilson Stephens and E. Lyall Swete.
The Incidental music was composed by Mr Christopher Wilson.
The Imperial theatre cast list is presented on page 2. Lewis Waller, a successful actor, Lessee and Manager of the theatre, is playing the main male lead of Ensign Peyton and Captain Harry Peyton.
This Imperial theatre programme consists of 4 pages including front and back cover. Approx. H 18cm x W 12cm.
1879 - Royal Strand - Madame Favart
1938 - His Majesty's Theatre - Operette
1928 - Palace Theatre - The Scarlet Pimpernel
1967 - The Garrick Theatre - The Brian Rix Theatre of Laughter
1930 - New Theatre - The Last Chapter
1888 - Strand Theatre - Jack in the Box
1929 - Symphony in Two Flats - New Theatre
1919 - Theatre Royal Drury Lane - Il Trovatore
1885 - Drury Lane - Aladdin
1950 - Golders Green Hippodrome - The Mikado -D'Oyly Carte
1942 - London Palladium - Gangway
1952 - Theatre Royal, Brighton - Shadow of a Man
1916 - The Palladium - Variety
1935 - Lyceum - The Forty Thieves
1950 - Sadler's Wells - Patience - D'Oyly Carte
1960 - Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool - Ross
1950 - Theatre Royal Brighton - The Damascus Blade
1959 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre - Patience - D'Oyly Carte
1926 - Lyceum Theatre - The Padre
1948 - Sadler's Wells - Iolinthe -D'Oyly Carte
1902 - Lyric Theatre - Mice and Men (plus original postcard)
1955 - Shakespeare Memorial Theatre - The Yeoman of the Guard -D'Oyly Carte
1911 - Theatre Royal Drury Lane - Money
1975 - Garrick Theatre - Aspects of Max Wall
1949 - Queen's Theatre, Poplar - Keep the Ball Rolling
1934 - Lyceum Theatre - Queen of Hearts
1932 - Savoy Theatre - Patience - D'Oyly Carte
1905 - Imperial Theatre - King Henry The Fifth 




