The Lyceum Company

1 July 1889 · Press

“One Who Was There” (original account)

Bram Stoker Estate account · Original source: English

Estate summary

A reprinted eyewitness account follows the Lyceum company from St Pancras to a royal command performance at Sandringham. Bram appears repeatedly as the organiser directing performers to their seats, handling the company’s arrival and keeping the journey moving. The writer describes reduced copies of the Lyceum scenery, the improvised theatre, the royal audience and performances of The Bells and the trial scene from The Merchant of Venice. Irving and Ellen Terry receive personal thanks and gifts from Queen Victoria. The account makes the practical labour behind a prestigious engagement unusually visible. This is the Press reprint of an account credited to the Pall Mall Gazette, not the original British printing.

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Henry Irving and Ellen Terry as Benedick and Beatrice — Irving and Terry as Benedick and Beatrice. Related theatrical portrait, not a picture of the Sandringham command performance.Library of Congress LCCN 97514042, chromolithograph; downloaded via Wikimedia Commons.