Mrs Deacle – Performing Archipelagos

About

Active Period

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Genre

Comedy, English theatre

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Geographic Location

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Mrs Darling (when she was acting in London at the Adelphi)

About

The first professional actor to arrive in Singapore in 1844, Mrs Deacle was recruited from England to join the Sans Souci Theatre in Calcutta in 1841. She remained there till 1844 before travelling to Singapore on tour.

Genre

Comedy, English theatre

Dates

Birth Date:

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Death Date:

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Last Active Date (Active Till):

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Debut Date (Active From):

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Troupe Role (hasRole)

Role Title	Role Description
No troupe role information recorded.

Kinship and Relationship

Person Involved	Kinship Type	Kinship Role	Other Kinship Role
No Kinship and Relationship information recorded.

Character (performed)

Character	Type	Description
Amelia Wildlove In Twelve Precisely, The Valet De Sham, and The Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Twelve Precisely
Katty O’Carroll In Twelve Precisely, The Valet De Sham, and The Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Twelve Precisely
Marchioness De Grenoville In Twelve Precisely, The Valet De Sham, and The Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Twelve Precisely
Captain Wildlove In Twelve Precisely, The Valet De Sham, and The Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Twelve Precisely
Marquis De Grenoville In Twelve Precisely, The Valet De Sham, and The Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Twelve Precisely
Miss Marchmont In Twelve Precisely, The Valet De Sham, and The Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In The Valet De Sham
Louisa Lovetrick In Twelve Precisely, The Valet De Sham, and The Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In The Dead Shot
Mariette In The Angel of The Attic, A Sketch, and Hunting a Turtle – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Angel of the Attic
Mrs Turtle In The Angel of The Attic, A Sketch, and Hunting a Turtle – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Hunting a Turtle
Mary In The Angel of The Attic, A Sketch, and Hunting a Turtle – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Hunting a Turtle
La Belle Sauvage In The Angel of The Attic, A Sketch, and Hunting a Turtle – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Hunting a Turtle
Caroline Gayton In Catching an Heiress, Antony and Cleopatra, and Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Catching an Heiress
Mr Fip Gayton In Catching an Heiress, Antony and Cleopatra, and Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Catching an Heiress
Cleopatra In Catching an Heiress, Antony and Cleopatra, and Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Antony and Cleopatra (Burletta)
Louisa Lovetrick In Catching an Heiress, Antony and Cleopatra, and Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In The Dead Shot
Emily Wilton In The Bath Road, Bachelor’s Buttons, and Bombastes Furioso – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Bachelor’s Buttons
Fanny In The Bath Road, Bachelor’s Buttons, and Bombastes Furioso – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Bachelor’s Buttons
Tom In The Bath Road, Bachelor’s Buttons, and Bombastes Furioso – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Bachelor’s Buttons
Dolly Dumps In The Bath Road, Bachelor’s Buttons, and Bombastes Furioso – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In Bachelor’s Buttons
Ellen In The Bath Road, Bachelor’s Buttons, and Bombastes Furioso – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Comic Figure	In The Bath Road
Portia In Merchant of Venice, The Chouch and Crow to roost are gone, and The Valet de Sham – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre part of	Heroine	Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Linda In The Sentinel and Catching an Heiress – 1844 part of	Comic Figure	In The Sentinel
Lady Macbeth In Macbeth and The Dead Shot part of	Tragic Figure	–

Other Work (hasWork)

Work Title	Work Type	Work Description
No other work information recorded.

Routes

Departure Date	From	Arrival Date	To	Via
3-May-1844	Calcutta	22-May-1844	Singapore	–
Transportation Mode Maritime		Transportation Line Description Britomart (British flag) News of Mrs Deacle’s arrival in Singapore: The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 23 May 1844, Page 6. https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressa18440523-1.2.11.23.2
Location Factor –		Location Description –

Departure Date	From	Arrival Date	To	Via
30-Sep-1844	Singapore	–	Bombay	–
Transportation Mode Maritime		Transportation Line Description Vessel’s Name: Julia Captain: Jones Flag: British
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Support (hasSupport)

Supporter Name	Type of Support	Support Description
No support information recorded.

Associated Performance(s)

Performance Name	Production	Festival	Tour
Twelve Precisely, The Valet De Sham, and The Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre			–
Catching an Heiress, Antony and Cleopatra, and Dead Shot – 1844 – San Souci Theatre			–
The Angel of The Attic, A Sketch, and Hunting a Turtle – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre			–
The Bath Road, Bachelor’s Buttons, and Bombastes Furioso – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre			–
Merchant of Venice, The Chouch and Crow to roost are gone, and The Valet de Sham – 1844 – Sans Souci Theatre			–
The Sentinel and Catching an Heiress – 1844			–
The Venice Preserved – 1844 – Theatre Royal			–
Macbeth and The Dead Shot			–
Venice Preserved and The Sentinel – 1844 – Theatre Royal			–

Media

No media recorded.

Sources

The Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser (1835-1869), 15 August 1844, Page 2. https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/singfreepressa18440523-1.2.11.20
The Adelphi Theatre Calendar: A Record of Dramatic Performances at a Leading Victorian Theatre. https://www.umass.edu/AdelphiTheatreCalendar/m42d.htm
Basu, Priyanka (2025). ‘Travelling Along ‘Untrodden Tracts’: Joachim Stocqueler and the Making of Early Colonial Theatre in India’. In: Szymanski-Düll, B., Skwirblies, L. (eds) European Theatre Migrants in the Age of Empire. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Migration, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dutt, Bishnupriya, and Urmimala S. Munsi (2010). “Actresses of the Colonial Space: English Actresses in India (1789–1842).” In Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity, 3-46. New Delhi: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4135/9788132106128.n1.

Contributor

Last Updated on:

January 23, 2026 at 4:04 pm

Contributors:

Alvin Lim

To Cite:

, and Lim, Alvin Eng HuiAlvin Eng Hui Lim.

2026. “Mrs Deacle“. In Performing Archipelagos, edited by Kyueun Kim, Alvin Eng Hui Lim and Hedren Wai Yuan Sum. Singapore: National University of Singapore.

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