A light-hearted review of the reign of Queen Victoria
We Are Not Amused
Devised by Kay Massey & Reg Mitchell
A collection of extracts from the Journal of Queen Victoria and from the works of those artists mentioned in them. This was a period of great entertainers in the concert hall and the theatre. Oscar Wilde, Sir Henry Irving & Dame Ellen Terry, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Tosti and Dame Melba, the Brontë sisters, Gilbert & Sullivan, and many more. The Queen met very many of these famous artists who performed at her Royal Command. Six actors, a singer and a pianist perform this fast-moving celebration of the reign of Victoria from her coronation to her funeral.
Apart from extracts from the Queen’s diaries, it includes extracts from
The Importance of Being Earnest
Pickwick Papers
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Jane Eyre
The Gondoliers
And several ballads and songs of the period.
Poems and recipes
Repent at Leisure
A collection of readings, poems and songs for
Valentines Day.
A cast of 3m 3f is suggested, with Pianist,
though more can be used if required.
