Calcutta's amateur playhouse, opened last cold season on the road behind Chowringhee, a few minutes' walk from the Cavendish Compound.
Description
Calcutta’s amateur playhouse, opened last cold season on the road behind Chowringhee, a few minutes’ walk from the Cavendish Compound. The company is Company gentlemen and garrison officers, with the ladies’ parts taken by whichever wives will risk them. The season restarts when the rains end, so the first bill of the cold weather is weeks away at most.
Notable Features
- The subscription list. Harriet Courtney sits on it and offered, in the Garden Reach drawing room, to put the party’s names down.
- Amateur company. Gentlemen’s theatricals: the audience knows every player socially, which is the entertainment.
- The season. Opens with the cold weather. Nothing is playing yet in the second week of October.
Connections
- Chowringhee
- Town Hall Calcutta carries the subscription concerts, the other half of the season’s music
- Harriet Courtney
Appearances
Connections
People
Location of
- Harriet Courtney NPC neutralKeeps the subscription list and offered to put the party's names on it1 session: The Third Course
Places
Part of
- Chowringhee Location neutralOn the road behind Chowringhee, minutes from the Cavendish compound