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unusual facts about Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds



1663 in Ireland

Katherine Philips' translation of Pierre Corneille's Pompée is successfully produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin (Smock Alley Theatre), the first English language play written by a woman to be performed on the professional stage.

1722 in literature

November 7 - Sir Richard Steele's "sentimental comedy" The Conscious Lovers (loosely based on Terence) opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London with an initial run of eighteen consecutive nights.

1808 in the United Kingdom

20 September - The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden in London is destroyed by fire along with most of the scenery, costumes and scripts.

Abanazer

He is the pantomime villain and has been played over the years by actors such as Martin Clunes (2000), and Clive Mantle who was Abanazer in 64 shows over the Christmas and New Year period of 2007 and 2008 at the Theatre Royal in Bath.

Benwell

Richard Grainger who built the markets, The Monument, Grainger Street, Theatre Royal and Grey Street is buried in St James’ Churchyard in Benwell

Charles J. Phipps

Theatre Royal, Glasgow (1880) and (1895) the largest surviving example of his work.

Cripplegate

Additionally the body of St. Edmund the Martyr was said to have been carried through it in 1010 on its way from Bury St Edmunds to St. Gregory's church to save it from the Danes and Lydgate, a monk of Bury, claimed that the body cured many lame peasants as it passed through the gate.

Dr. Strangely Strange

The group disbanded in May 1971, after playing a concert with Al Stewart at London's Drury Lane Theatre.

Drury Lane Theatre

Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, a theatre in the West End area of London, England

Drury Lane Theatrical Fund

The Drury Lane Theatrical Fund (DLTF) is a benevolent fund for established in 1766 by members of the Theatre Royal in London, England, "for the relief and support of such performers and other persons belonging to the said theater, as, through age, infirmity, or accident, should be obliged to retire from the Stage".

Edward William Elton

Before the termination of the season he accepted an engagement of a month from William H. Murray of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh.

English Touring Theatre

The Sacred Flame by W. Somerset Maugham (Autumn 2012) - Touring from September 2012 to the following venues: Rose Theatre, Kingston, Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford Playhouse, New Wolsey Theatre, Liverpool Playhouse, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Theatre Royal, Brighton, The Nuffield Theatre Southampton, and Cambridge Arts Theatre.

George Perren

He sang in the premiere of Edward Loder's Raymond and Agnes at the Theatre Royal, Manchester (14 April 1855) and in the premiere of George Alexander McFarren's opera She Stoops to Conquer at the Drury Lane Theatre (11 February 1864).

Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren

Gilbert's pantomime opened on the same night as rival shows at the Drury Lane Theatre, Covent Garden, Sadler's Wells, and eight other London theatres.

Harriet Waylett

The daughter of a tradesman in Bath, Somerset, Harriet Cooke was born there on 7 February 1798; her uncle was a member of the Drury Lane Theatre company, and Sarah Cooke was her cousin.

Helen Noble

In the 2005-06 pantomime season she appeared as Princess Apricot Crumble in Jack & the Beanstalk at Theatre Royal, Plymouth.

James Dreyfus

In November 2004, Dreyfus played Carmen Ghia in the London premiere of Mel Brooks' musical The Producers, at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.

James Moore Smythe

In 1727, he wrote his only play, The Rival Modes, and the Drury Lane company under the direction of Colley Cibber and Robert Wilks acted it.

John and Benjamin Green

The Green’s most important commissions in Newcastle were the Theatre Royal (1836–37) and the column for Grey's Monument (1837–38).

John Stonor

Other work included special inquiries into the disorders in 1327 at Bury St Edmunds and Abingdon Abbey and in 1335 at Oxford, official misconduct in 1323 and 1331–1334 and trying rebels in 1323, 1327, and 1331.

John Wrawe

On 12 June, Wrawe attacked Sir Richard Lyons' property at Overhall, advancing on to the towns of Cavendish and Bury St Edmunds in west Suffolk the next day, gathering further support as they went.

Lincoln Performing Arts Centre

The theatre's programme of events is designed to complement, rather than compete with, those of its neighbouring venues, such as the Theatre Royal, Lincoln.

Long Melford-Bury St Edmunds branch line

The Long Melford–Bury St Edmunds branch line was a railway between Long Melford on the Stour Valley Railway and Bury St Edmunds on the Ipswich to Ely Line.

Maria Linley

She was trained as a singer by her father Thomas Linley the elder (one of 7 musical siblings born to him and his wife Mary Johnson) and performed in the Drury Lane oratorios and in concerts until her early death.

Mary Jane Seaman

Mary Jane Seaman was an actress who played in the provinces before playing Mrs Wellington de Boots in Joseph Stirling Coyne's comedy Everybody's Friend at the Theatre Royal, Manchester in October 1859.

Massacre of St George's Fields

This in turn led to a riot at the production of Kelly's new play A Word to the Wise at the Drury Lane Theatre, forcing the production to be abandoned.

NHS the Musical

NHS The Musical was premiered in May 2006 at The Drum Theatre, Theatre Royal, Plymouth.

Oberon Old and New

A staging that parked an aeroplane on the roof of Glasgow's Theatre Royal on the opening night only seemed to sink the already preposterous plot further into the mire, although Burgess was so taken with the music that he went on to arrange the overture to Oberon for guitar quartet.

Ranelagh Gardens

In 1741, the house and grounds were purchased by a syndicate led by the proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane and Sir Thomas Robinson MP, and the Gardens opened to the public the following year.

Sir Raymond Greene, 2nd Baronet

He was the second son of Edward Greene (later Sir Edward Greene, 1st Baronet) of Nether Hall, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and Anne Elizabeth née Royds of Haughton, Staffordshire.

Solomon Joel

He was also kept busy with his enlarged family's diamond and gold mining interests, activities in brewing, the theatre (the Drury Lane Theatre in London) and railways (the City and South London Railway).

Speed the Plough

Speed the Plough is a five-act comedy by Thomas Morton, first performed in 1798 at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden to great acclaim.

Sydney central business district

There is a large concentration of cultural institutions within the CBD including: the Museum of Sydney, the State Library of New South Wales, the Customs House branch of the City of Sydney Library, the Theatre Royal, the City Recital Hall and the Japan Foundation.

The Maid of Honour

John Philip Kemble, an admirer of Massinger's dramas, staged an adaptation of the play called Camiola, or The Maid of Honour, at Drury Lane in 1785.

The Maiden Queen

The play, commonly known by its more distinctive subtitle, was acted by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (which had escaped the Great Fire of London the year before).

The Warbanks

A late Bronze Age sword (now in the Moyse's Hall Museum in Bury St Edmunds) was found on the site of the Warbanks and has been dated as 800-600BC and could give a clue to the age of the banks.

Theatre Royal, Brighton

In 1806 the Prince of Wales gave Royal Assent for the theatre to be built and it opened on 27 June 1807, with a performance of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

So it remained until the 1960s when a group of local people led by Air Vice Marshal Stanley Vincent raised over £37,000 to restore and re-open the Theatre Royal in 1965.

Theatre Royal, Gloucester

At its centenary in 1891, Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry both appeared with members of the Lyceum Company.

Theatre Royal, Hobart

It staged its inaugural performances in March 1837; Thomas Morton's "Speed the Plough" and the W. Oxberry's ″The Spoiled Child.

Theatre Royal, Lincoln

On 18 March 2011, Lord Chancellor Kenneth Clarke visited the theatre as part of the campaign in the May 2011 referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) system in UK parliamentary elections.

Theatre Royal, Plymouth

It is now a three-screen cinema known as the Reel Plymouth, run by Reel Cinemas.

Theatre Royal, Windsor

He and his actress wife Mary Kerridge worked ceaselessly for this theatre, which remained unsubsidized, until his retirement in 1986, the year before his death.

Thorgrim

Thorgrim is an opera in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen to a libretto by Joseph Bennett after the Icelandic tale Viglund the Fair, first performed at the Drury Lane Theatre, London on 22 April 1890.

Tommaso Giordani

His last opera, The Cottage, Festival, was produced at the Theatre Royal, Dublin, 28 Nov., 1796.

Welwyn

In Graham Robb's book "The Ancient Paths" there is a suggestion that Welwyn lay on a late-Celtic highway running in the direction of the summer solstice angle straight from Bury St Edmunds to Salisbury via the Catuvellauni headquarters outside modern-day St Albans.

Willis Hall

Under Waterhall's coaxing, the piece also became the long-running Drury Lane musical, Billy (1974), starring Michael Crawford, and a television sit-com both in Britain (1973–4) and in the United States (1979).


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