Theatrical Performances

Date:
1898-1915
Reference:
RET 1/8/4/17/1
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The Retreat Archive
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Contains: 24 images

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Credit

Theatrical Performances. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Photograph 1 is dated 5 January 1898 and may show a performance of ‘The Rivals; actors include the York solicitor and City Councillor, KET Wilkinson, Oscar Rowntree (younger son of Joseph Rowntree), and Mrs Frank Rowntree (wife of nephew of Joseph Rowntree). Photograph 2 shows a performance of what may be either KET Wilkinson’s play ‘Love Laughs at Locksmiths’, or a play called ‘The Bow Street Runners’, performed in 1903; actors identified as HC Hunt (extreme left, with pipe), Dr Kemp, Sister Blanche, Oscar Rowntree, Mrs Frank Rowntree, Miss W Rowntree, Twyman, Mrs Pierce (wife of Bedford Pierce, the Retreat Medical Superintendent), and Mrs O. Rowntree. Photograph 3 may be ‘School for Scandal’. Photograph 4 shows a scene from an unidentified play and is dated 1911-1912 on the reverse, with all the actors identified: Bertie Mayer, Sister Gladys, Dr Kemp, Mrs Frank Rowntree and Mrs Pierce. Photograph 5 is of ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream’, performed 23 January 1913. Photograph 6 is the play ‘Henry VIII, performed 23 January 1913. Photograph 7 is ‘Alice’s Party’, performed 24 December 1915, with names of cast on reverse: Bo Peep: Nurse Brown, Boy Blue: Nurse Cleasby, Tom the Piper’s Son: Nurse Jenny Huitson, Milkmaid: Nurse Holroyd, White Rabbit: Dr Wilson, Miss Muffett: Nurse Huitson, Alice: Nurse Ellis, Jack Horner: Nurse Wilmot, Herald (Gregory): Nurse Skelding, King Cole: HC Hunt, Lady Babe: Nurse Ross, Gent: Nurse Clifford, Muffin Man: Nurse Haslam. Photographs 8 – 10 show scenes from unidentified plays. Photographs 11 – 12 show two views of a scene from another unidentified play.

Publication/Creation

1898-1915

Physical description

12 photographs

Terms of use

Open and available at the Borthwick Institute for Archives. This material has been digitised by the Borthwick Institute for Archives as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project, and can be freely accessed online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.

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