Printing the Toy Theatre -
Exhibition preview and opening lecture, Tuesday 21 November 2006
(St Brides Library, London)

Our speaker David Powell is the author of William West and the Regency Toy Theatre (2004) and W. G. Webb and the Victorian Toy Theatre (2005). Born Hull 1955, he studied Literae Humaniores at Wadham College, Oxford, 1973–77. Since 1982 he has been employed as Senior Special Cataloguer at the Congregational Library, London and has since 1993 been a Trustee of Pollock’s Toy Museum.
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The Green Festival
(Planned for Autumn 2008, Venue is probably London)
(under Construction)
Victorian Toy Theatre Performance of Oliver
Twist (12th August 2006 – Dickens Museum, London)

An enlarged Britannia by John Redington,
beautifully recreated by Horatio Blood
This was a rare opportunity to see a traditional toy theatre show of Oliver Twist, originally published by John Redington circa 1860.
There was a brief introduction describing the links between Charles Dickens and the toy theatre.
The play was performed with gusto by Barry Clarke.

The final scene of John Redington’s Oliver Twist
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