• Title
  Page 093: Botany Bay Theatricals [1797 newscutting].
• Call number
  SAFE/MLMSS 7631 page 93
  
• Level of description
  file
• Date
  
  1797
• Type of material
  Textual Records, Clippings
• Reference code
  456555
• Physical Description
  Clippings - 1 clipping
  
• Scope and Content
  `Botany Bay Theatricals' being `Copy of A Botany Bay Play Bill shews to what a degree of refinement that settlement has already attained'. This is a newscutting of a playbill for the plays `The Busy Body' and `The Poor Soldier', performed in Sydney on Saturday, 23 July 1796. (MLMSS 7631 page 93)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Part of: G. D. Whittington - `Theatrical Scraps consisting of Various Casts of Shakespears Plays, & other Stock Pieces. Also many other things relating to the Theatres of London', 1782-1799
  The playbill was published in the Oracle, 13 July 1797. This cutting may be from the Oracle. Copies of playbills were sent to England and reprinted, often a year after the event, as a means of informing the public in England of colonial activities in New South Wales. -- see R. Jordan, The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840 (2002)
  Digital order no:a1479004
• Subject
  Printed ephemera--Great Britain--18th century.
  
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  IE3254059

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