Playbill

Playbill for Richardson's Theatre announcing performances of 'Italians: or Days of Yore' and 'Harlequin and the Dwarfs'. Richardson's was a travelling theatre, performing at fairs such as Greenwich, Southwark and Brook Green. Richardson's used scenery from Drury Lane, and was where the young Edmund Kean learned to act. This playbill notes that admission cost 6d, a price which was establisdhed by 1828. Dickens described Richardson's Theatre entertainments in 'Sketches by Boz' and noted how quickly the company performed the melodrama and pantomime that made up their entertainments.