Playbill

Playbill for The Belgravia Theatre, Sloane Square. Announcing a performance of Don Caesar de Bazan on Friday June 17th 1870. In 1870 the Belgravia Theatre was a new venture, as it only opened in 1870. The playbill is unusual as it gives the theatre's location at the top of the bill, describing it as "opposite the railway station", which had opened eighteen months previously, at the end of 1868. The new theatre was not the success the owners had hoped, as theatre reviewers reported the theatre only attracted a small audience in the summer of 1870. By November the theatre had closed down, and the building was coverted into a new theatre called the Royal Court.