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A makeshift performance space built on a Snake-class sloop-of-war. “The stage was raised a few feet in front of the brig’s mainmast, & all aft was covered in with flags of different nations, forming a striking & variegated ceiling, and disposed at the sides so as to admit an agreeable supply of air” (The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, 5 March, 1840)
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| Performance Name | Performer | Production | Festival |
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| John Bull or The Englishman’s Fireside, and “Raising the Wind” |
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The image shows H.M.S. Cruizer on the far left.
Ackermann (publishers); Day and Haghe (engravers); Hinton, A (publisher); Vernon, H John (engraver); William Foster (publisher). 1844. “The Experimental Brigs. H.M. Brig Flying Fish, 12 guns. Constructed by Sir William Symonds. (Shows H.M.S. Cruizer, Mutine and Daring).” Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/140872.
Sources
THEATRICAL. — Among the enjoyments. (1940, March 5). The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser, Page 3. https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressa18400305-1.2.10
Contributor
2025. ““Queen’s Theatre” at H. M. sloop-of-War Cruizer“. In Performing Archipelagos, edited by Kyueun Kim, Alvin Eng Hui Lim and Hedren Wai Yuan Sum. Singapore: National University of Singapore.
