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Volume 4 Number 2 / Fall 1983

'Pepper's Ghost is Tearing its Hair': Ottawa Theatre in the 1870s

Submitted
May 13, 2008
Published
1983-06-06

Abstract

During the 1870s Ottawa audiences enjoyed a varied program of professional touring companies. Opera, drama, minstrel and one-man shows, as well as circuses visited the city. An analysis of the performance calendar of shows at Her Majesty's Theatre, the Rink Music Hall, Gowan's Opera House, and later the Opera House reveals Ottawa's prominent position on the south-eastern Ontario touring circuit during the nineteenth century. Pendant les années mille huit soixante dix le public d'Ottawa avait jouit de spectacles de troupes professionelles en tournée. L'Opéra, le drame, des troupes de ménestrel, les spectacles donné par un seul homme et le cirque visitèrent la ville. Une analyse des répresentations du Her Majesty's Theatre, au Rink Music Hall et Gowan's Opera House, révèle l'importante position d'Ottawa dans les circuits de tornée dans le sud-est d'Ontario au cours du dix-neuvième siècle.