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  • Deaf actors using sign language perform a play about Don Guzman to an audience in St Saviour's church hall, London. Wood engraving by G. Durand, 1877.
  • The Terrence Higgins Trust present a unique staged reading of Safe Sex by Harvey Fierstein : at the Vaudeville Theatre, The Strand WC2, Sunday 16th December at 7.30 pm : includes High Profilactors!.
  • Last appearance but two of Mr. & Mrs. Yates : last appearance but four of Monsieur Bihin the celebrated Belgian giant, the tallest and handsomest man in the world, and also of the original troupe of Parisian monkeys! / Theatre Royal, Dublin.
  • A choir of men and boys rehearsing a performance of an oratorio. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1736.
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • A patient sits helplessly in a chair while proponents of different medicines brawl with each other, overturning tables and chairs; beneath, a comic strip and a further six comic episodes. Lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1834.
  • Cornelianum dolium. Comoedia lepidissima, optimorum judiciis approbata ... / Auctore, T.R.
  • Wonderland Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's Station) ... Whit Monday May 25th and during the week : Great attractions entire change ... Rabbi Joselman ... Mr. A. Broadhurst the surprise of the Chicago exhibition, with a beard over 7 feet long and a moustache 3 feet in length : Wonderful living freak of nature, the armless Midget Lady stands only 32 inches in height, born without hands or arms, and goes through a marvellous performance with her feet ...
  • A musical journey into the imagination... : Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark, the musical / Prince Edward Theatre ; painting by Patrick Woodroffe ; background graphics by Mike Batt.
  • A musical journey into the imagination... : Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark, the musical / Prince Edward Theatre ; painting by Patrick Woodroffe ; background graphics by Mike Batt.
  • Dear Friend, I have the privilege of inviting you to an important theatrical event and I'm sure you won't want to miss it ... / Sir John Gielgud, Patron of the Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A musical journey into the imagination... : Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark, the musical / Prince Edward Theatre ; painting by Patrick Woodroffe ; background graphics by Mike Batt.
  • A musical journey into the imagination... : Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark, the musical / Prince Edward Theatre ; painting by Patrick Woodroffe ; background graphics by Mike Batt.
  • Wonderland Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's Station) ... Whit Monday May 25th and during the week : Great attractions entire change ... Rabbi Joselman ... Mr. A. Broadhurst the surprise of the Chicago exhibition, with a beard over 7 feet long and a moustache 3 feet in length : Wonderful living freak of nature, the armless Midget Lady stands only 32 inches in height, born without hands or arms, and goes through a marvellous performance with her feet ...
  • Mr. G. H. MacDermott's ninth annual benefit, Tuesday, Sept. 19th, 1882 : An entirely new and original burlesque sketch, written by Arthur Lloyd, entitled Maid Maryann or all a-growing & a-blowing ... / London Pavilion, Tichborne Street, Haymarket, W.
  • Every evening at 7.45, on a scale of grand magnificance, a new edition of the grand fairy spectacular opera, Babil & Bijou or, the lost regalia : by Dion Boucicault & J.R. Planche ... / Alhambra Theatre, manager, William Holland.
  • Letters Out : video and manual : a unique package about women and HIV / Second Sight, Zair Works, 111 Bishop Street, Birmingham.
  • Letters Out : video and manual : a unique package about women and HIV / Second Sight, Zair Works, 111 Bishop Street, Birmingham.
  • Letters Out : video and manual : a unique package about women and HIV / Second Sight, Zair Works, 111 Bishop Street, Birmingham.
  • Letters Out : video and manual : a unique package about women and HIV / Second Sight, Zair Works, 111 Bishop Street, Birmingham.
  • Letters Out : video and manual : a unique package about women and HIV / Second Sight, Zair Works, 111 Bishop Street, Birmingham.
  • Letters Out : video and manual : a unique package about women and HIV / Second Sight, Zair Works, 111 Bishop Street, Birmingham.
  • St. Peter's College, Westminster: a Royal procession by night. Lithograph, 1834.
  • A chorus of singers rehearsing William Huggins' oratorio "Judith". Etching by W. Hogarth, 1732.
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.
  • A man in bed with vegetables sprouting from all parts of his body; as a result of taking an overdose of James Morison's vegetable pills. Coloured lithograph by C.J. Grant, 1831.