Circus and Stage
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Circus and Stage

The Theatrical Adventures of Rose Edouin and G. B. W. Lewis

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Circus and Stage

The Theatrical Adventures of Rose Edouin and G. B. W. Lewis

About this book

Rose Edouin (née Bryer) and her husband, entrepreneur and circus performer George Benjamin William Lewis, have received little attention in the history of Australian theatre, and certainly few now would be aware of the achievements of this couple. Fame is ephemeral. For more than half a century, from the 1850s, Edouin and Lewis forged high-profile careers that encompassed circus, the popular stage and theatre management in Europe, Australia, China, India and New Zealand. Actress Rose started as a child star in London, toured the gold towns of Victoria and acted in and directed popular theatre in India and China before opening the Academy of Music/Bijou Theatre in Bourke Street, Melbourne. George brought the equestrian/horse circus to Melbourne, opened the building that became the Princess Theatre, built theatres in Calcutta, was an early employer of JC Williamson, and for a decade, in the late 1800s, managed the Academy of Music/Bijou Theatre. Circus and Stage tells this couple's intriguing and important story.

Information

Publisher
Monash University Publishing
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9781922235039
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Australian & Oceanian History

Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Title page
  3. Imprint page and copyright information
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. About the author
  7. Notes on sources
  8. Chapter 1. Mr George Lewis, gymnast, ring master and equestrian
  9. Chapter 2. The Edouins in England
  10. Chapter 3. On tour in Australia
  11. Chapter 4. George in Asia
  12. Chapter 5. The Edouins return to Melbourne
  13. Chapter 6. Lewis moves from circus to stage
  14. Chapter 7. Lewis’s grand dramatic burlesque and ballet company in India
  15. Chapter 8. Melbourne and India
  16. Chapter 9. India and China
  17. Chapter 10. Employing the Williamsons, 1875–1876
  18. Chapter 11. The Victorian Academy of Music, 1876–1879
  19. Chapter 12. The Lewises at the Bijou Theatre, 1880–1885
  20. Chapter 13. Retirement and back to England, 1885–1893
  21. Chapter 14. Return to Australia and ‘poverty’, 1894–1907
  22. Chapter 15. Rose home in England
  23. Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. Back cover

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