Abstract
On Boxing Night 1865, Nottingham’s New Theatre Royal — which had opened in September that same year — staged its first pantomime, The House that Jack Built. ‘The house was filled in all parts to overflowing, more than 2000 being present’ according to the report in the next day’s Nottingham Journal.1 And what greeted those spectators, as the preview to the pantomime in the Journal made very clear, was a production that was very precisely located in Nottingham itself: ‘the librettist has interwoven with it [the well-known and popular nursery story] certain references and remarks which give a local habitation and a name’.2
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