A REMARKABLE PLAY BILL.

Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 269, 17 April 1886, Page 4

A REMARKABLE PLAY BILL.

The folli w : ng is a 'iteral copy of a ru'ious playbill s;iid to have been is Kurd in flip year 1793 bv th*' manager of the Theatre Koyal, Kilkenny : 44 Kilkenny Theatre Royal, by his 44 Majesty's Company of Comedians. 44 On Saturday, May" 14th, 17'J3, 'will be peiformed, by command o several retractable person* in thin most learned metropolis, for t ie b refit of the worthy Mr Kearn«. tin Tragedy of Harriet, riginally u i en nnd composed by the c<debta f ed Dan Heys (!). of Limerick, and inserted in rviakespeare's w« rks Hamlet, by Mr K earns, who, between the acts, will perform several solos on the patent bagpipec, which play three lunes at the same time (1) Ophelia by Mrs Prior, "wo will introduce several favourite stirs in character, particularly • T.i« Lass of Richmond Hill/ * We'll all be unhappy together/ from the Rev Father Dibdin's •Oddities' The parts of the King and Queen, by the direction of the Kev Father © Calla 'an will be omi'ted, as being too immoral for any stage. The Ghost, the Grave digger, and Laertes, will bo played b\ Mr Simpson Characters dressed in ]{oman shapes To which will be ad ded an inter tide, in which will be introduced several sleight of hand trick h by the celebrated Hunt, Th« whole to conclude with the farce of Mahomet the Imposter* Mahomet by Mr Ktarns Tickets to be hid at th> sign if the Goat's Beard in Castle street The value of the tickets, as usual, will be taken in can-I'es bacon, butter, pork, cheese, snap, potatoes, Ac, as Mr Kearns wishes in every particu ar to «ccon odate the public Important.— So person shall be admitted into the boxes without shoes and stockings."