Toy theatre

Among the precious yellowed toy-theatre sheets given to me by Bill Meilen in the 1960s, there were a couple of glorious ones from The Giant Horse or The Siege of Troy, published by Orlando Hodgson …

toy theatre, also called juvenile drama, popular 19th-century English children’s toy that provides modern theatre historians with a valuable record of the plays and playhouses of its day. Most scholars believe the juvenile drama to have originated with the engraved sheets that began to be printed in London around 1810 as souvenirs of current plays. Each sheet depicted the principal characters of the plays in their most dramatic attitudes, and the names and fairly accurate portraits of the…

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Cinderella toy theatre

Miniature computerized theatre which showcases a ten-minute condensed performance of the second act of the ballet "Giselle". There are 13 six-inch dancers who are choreographed to perform the ballet to an edited version of the score. The performance is viewed in a darkened room to give the audience the sense that they are watching the ballet from the balcony of an actual theatre. Commissioned in 1997 by a U.S.collector of theatre memorabilia, the model is 34" w x 32"h x 22" d. The artist…