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- Title
WHEN DITCHERS AND JACK TARS COLLIDE: BENEFIT THEATRICALS AT THE CALCUTTA LYRIC THEATRE IN THE WAKE OF THE INDIAN MUTINY.
- Authors
Isbell, Mary; Gibson, Mary Ellis; Richard, Melissa
- Abstract
The collision I explore in this essay is not a physical one, though it does emerge from a performance event that brought Ditchers (European residents in Calcutta) and Jack Tars (sailors in the Royal Navy) to the Calcutta Lyric Theatre on February 25, 1858. The collision actually manifests in print, as conflicting reviews of this event. Announced in the silk playbill pictured in Figure 19, the sailor amateurs of HMS Chesapeake offered a benefit theatrical to raise money for the Indian Relief Fund, a charity offering support to “widows, orphans, or other representatives of those who perished in the mutiny” (“Indian Relief”) (Figure 19).
- Subjects
KOLKATA (India); THEATER history; BRITISH occupation of India, 1765-1947; AMATEUR theater; 19TH century drama; GREAT Britain. Royal Navy; ENGLISH people
- Publication
Victorian Literature & Culture, 2014, Vol 42, Issue 3, p407
- ISSN
1060-1503
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1017/S1060150314000060