II A STEP TOWARD BENGALI MARKET THEATRE
At the beginning of 1870, after significantly more than two and half decades in Asia in addition to their 3rd season in Calcutta, Lewis decided to ending their reference to the sub-continent and come back to Australia. He advertised on March 10 1870 his Lyceum theater for sale. Lewises wished continuity on the English theatre in Calcutta, and perhaps these were also unwilling to stop Calcutta website link in rush which was just what motivated them to convince Willie Gill, a aˆ?low’ comedian within teams, to take a venture to start out a theatre anew on the webpage of Lyceum. After a farewell performance at Lewis’s Lyceum on 31 March 1870 night Lewises kept Calcutta without the want to coming back again eventually. Willie Gill got genuine to their vow to give a theatre on the old Lewis site. With a Calcutta entrepreneur, known as Sultana, Gill exposed a theatre throughout the Maidan in Oct 1870. He started their own theatre underneath the banner, aˆ?Olympic Theatre’, during the early Oct. But while some critics enjoyed the aˆ?capital actors’ the venture were not successful. p.95 [Colligan]The Lewis providers was only one of the many enjoyment troupes that visited Calcutta within the middle to later part of the nineteenth century, nonetheless they happened to be the first to stay for a length of the time of seven years. They impacted Calcutta theater in the form of her general public purpose-built proscenium theater by itself by their own arsenal and manufacturing standards [Colligan]. (περισσότερα…)