Aqua drama.- Sadler's Wells Aquatic Theatre...Mr. Conway...his Benefit...Two Silver Cups Will be Shot for by a Party of Ladies with Muskets!!..., printed playbill, ink manuscript programme of performance to verso in contemporary hand, some tiny puncture-marks to head affecting few letters, some light creasing and short tears to edges, 275 x 215mm., C. Stower, 3rd October 1804.
⁂ In 1803-04, Charles Dibdin the younger, manager of Sadler's Wells Theatre, installed a large water tank to cover the entire stage, advertising the venue as an aquatic theatre that performed aqua dramas. The tank was removed in 1824. The programme written on the verso, presumably for this performance, includes "The Pantomime of Anthony Cleopatra & Harlequin...Shooting for 2 Silver Cups...Seige [sic] of Gilbratar with real ships on real water".
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