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THEATRE ROYAL, [[image: coat of arms]] NEWCASTLE.
Lessee, Mr. E. D. DAVIS, 15. Westmorland Terrace.
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LAST NIGHTS OF THE SPLENDID NEW COMIC PANTOMIME
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Half-Price to all Parts OF THE House
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ENGAGEMENT FOR SIX NIGHTS ONLY OF THE CELEBRATED 
MR IRA ALDRIDGE
THE AFRICAN ROSCIUS.
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Mr ALDRIDGE appears after an absence of Three Years from England, during the time he has had the distinguished honor of appearing before
His Majesty Fredrick William IV. King of Prussia; The Prince and Princess of Prussia; Prince Frederick Wilhelm and Court; His Imperial Majesty Francis Joseph I. Emperor of Austria; Her Imperial Highness Sophia Archduchess of Austria; His Majesty Ferdinad, Ex-Emperor of Austria; 
His Imperial Highness Archduke Albrecht, Viceroy of Hungary; Their Majesties Frederick Augustus and Maria of Saxony; Their Majesties the King and Queen of Holland; Her Majesty the Queen of Sweden; The Prince Regent of Baden; Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg; His Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin; His Royal Highness the Reigning Duke of Brunswick; Their Highnesses the Margrave and Margravine of Baden; General Jellachich, Ban of Crotia, &c., &c.
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As the African Roscius is the only Actor of Colour that has ever been known, and having been acknowledged by the Press of England, Ireland, and Scotland, to posses histrionic talent of the highest order, the following sketch of his Life may prove acceptable:
The African Progenitors, down to the Grandfather of the subject of this Memoir, were Princes of the Foulah Tribe, whose dominions were at Senegal, on the banks of the River of that name. The father of the present individual was sent for his education to Schennectady College, near New York, in the United States. Three days after his departure from his native shore an insurrection broke out amongst the tribe, arising chiefly from a wish on the part of their King to exchange prisoners taken in battle, instead of the usual barbarous custom of selling them for Slaves. His humanity, however, interfered with an established perquisite long possessed by some of his principal officers. The Grandfather of the present African Roscius, through their interested policy, fell a victim to his mutinous subjects. Deprived of the means of ascertaining his birthright, and, to a certain degree, cast upon the world as a Cosmopolite, the Father became a Clergyman, and officiates in New York. The subject of this Memoir was destined for the same profession, but prefering the "sock and buskin" he departed from his Father's roof to the shores of Great Britain, where his talented histrionic exertions have been most warmly and kindly patronized, a triumphant answer to those advocates of the Slave Trade, who founded their defence of that nefarious traffic on the inferiority of the African intellect and feeling.
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ON MONDAY EVENING, FEB. 2, 1857,
Will be presented Shakspeare's celebrated Tragedy of 
OTHELLO!
Duke of Venice,...Mr WATSON.
Brabantio,...Mr DEWAR.
Cassio,... Mr J.B. STEELE.
OTHELLO,...MR IRA ALDRIDGE.
Roderigo,...Mr COURTENAY.
Iago,... Mr ORVELL, his First Appearance this Season.
Ludovico,... Mr J. WATSON.
Montano,...Mr ELLISON.
Paulo,...Mr ROBERTS.
Luca,...Mr JONES
Antonio,...Mr BELL.
Gratiano,... Mr FIELDING. 
Julio,... Mr WILLIAMS.
Messenger,...Mr SMITH.
Desdemona,...Miss ELLEN BEAUFORT.
Emilia,...Miss ADELAIDE BOWERING.
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ON TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 3, 1857,
Will be presented the admired Play of THE
SLAVE!
Governor of Surinam, ... Mr. FIELDING.
Captain Clifton, ... Mr COURTENAY.
Captain Malcolm, ... Mr J. B. STEELE.
Colonel Lindenburg, ... Mr EDMUND GREEN.
Matthew Sharpset, ... Mr SYDNEY DAVIS.
Sam Sharpset, ... Mr DEWAR.
GAMBIA (an African Slave), ... MR IRA ALDRIDGE.
Fogrum, ... Mr FRANK SEYMOUR.
Somerdike, ... Mr ELLISON.
First Planter, ... Mr J. WATSON.
Second Planter, ... Mr BELL.
Officer, ... Mr ROBERTS.
Gaoler, ... Mr WATSON.
Mrs. Lindenburg, ... Mrs COURTENAY.
Zelinda (a Quadroon Slave)... Miss ADELAIDE BOWERING.
Stella Clinton, ... Miss ELLEN BEAUFORT.
Miss Von From[[?]] ... Miss COOKE.
Child, ...Miss YOUNG.
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ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEB. 4,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF
PAUL PIETRO, THE CLOWN,
On which occasion will be presented Shakespeare's favourite Play of THE
MERCHANT OF VENICE
Duke of Venice, ... Mr. WATSON.
Antonio (the Merchant), ... Mr EDMUND GREEN.
Gratiana, ... Mr SYDNEY DAVIS.
SHYLOCK, ... Mr. IRA ALDRIDGE.
Bassanio, ... Mr. J. B. STEELE.
Old Gobbo, ... Mr. FIELDING.
Launcelot Gobbo, ... Mr FRANK SEYMOUR.
Salanio, ... Mr. COURTENAY.
Lorenzo, ... Mr BELL.
Balthazar, ... Mr JONES.
Salarino, ... Mr ELLISON.
Tubal, ... Mr SMITH.
Leonardo, ... MR J. WATSON.
Stephano, ... Mr. ROBERTS.
Portia, ... Miss ADELAIDE BOWERING.
Nerissa, ... Miss MADELINE PERCY.
Jessica, ... Miss ELLEN BEAUFORT.
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To conclude Each Performance with the Newest, most Classical, Scenic, Poetical, and Indiscribable of Prolusions, typifying what we are and what we may be, embracing Acrostation, Emigration, and Australisation, and surpassing all the Wonders of the New Crystal Palace at Sydenham, being a Gorgeous, Splendid, Tragical, Pastoral, Pastoral-Comical, Htstorical-Pastoral, Tragical-Historical, Tragical-Comical-Historical-Pastoral, Primordial, Electro-Biological
COMIC CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, Produced and Played to Please the Public (if they Please) and Politely Presenting
Proper, Popular, Protactick Personages, to Propound the Parabolical Propendency of its Prosopopocias, to be entitled to HARLEQUIN
GULLIVER
Gulliver (Traveller, Hero, Moraliser, and Benefactor),...on Monday Evening, by Mr DEWAR: on Tuesday and Wednesday, by Mr SYDNEY DAVIS.
Martinus Scribbelerus (Professor of the Bathos),...Mr FIELDING.
Bluebeard{the terror of all Ladies who are embued with curiosity, and as that quality is supposed to be inherent in all womankind, we may suppose him pretty generally hated),{Mr EDMUND GREEN.
Jack the Giant Killer(a celebrated hero of the olden time, renowned for his prowess, immortalized for his valous), Herr KNOOKEMOFF.
Professor Anderson (described as indiscribable-a professor of properties possessing preponderating powers),...Mr JONES.
The Red Man(a well-read ready reckoner),...Mr BELL. 
Merlin(the unshaven sage, the admirer and adviser of the Court of Tom Thumb),...Mr Sage.
Puss in Boots{not exactly the puss so often seen in company with the Ex-Lord Mayor Whittington, but we presume intending to journey, as she has provided travelling appendages.{Master Grimalkin.
St. George(the Guardian Saint of Merry England, brought forward on the present occasion to assist in creating a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year). Mr GOODLY.
HEROES, NECROMANCERS, and WARRIORS, by Skilfull Collaborateurs.
Flummeryaw(the genius of Ignorance-the modern representative of Old Bogy),...Mr COURTENAY.
Goose and Dragon,... Master GOSLING and Mr GRINDER.
Canary Bind(a mellifluous specimen of Ornithology, unequalled in any collection),...Mr FRANK SEYMOUR.
Growler (Brobdignagian Guard), Mr ELLISON.
Howler(his Companion), Mr ROBERTS.
Baby Bouncer(as Infant prodigy), Mr . WATSON.
Fumbomum(the Three-headed),...Mr J.B.STEELE.
Funnyoman(a Giantess-his Wife)....Mr DEWAR.
Mother Goose(the veritable original of the most successful of Pantonmimes, supposed to be long since defunct, but resuscitated for this present occasion), Mrs NICELY.
Little Red Riding Hood(supposed to be deeply attached to her Grandmother, and the ex-victim of Mr. Wolf),...Miss MINNY.
Captive Princess,...Miss GALE
Perrenia(the impersonation of goodness, the emblem of etherial existence, whose dwelling is light, and whose touch a rose leaf),.. Miss ELIZA JOHNSTONE.
Felicia(her attendant Sylphide, whose joyous existence is passed in acts of benevolence),... Miss ELLEN BEAUFORT.
Bee'swing(the Indefatigable), Miss MADELINE PERCY.
Lapwing(the ethereal),...Mrs COURTENAY.
Pioni(The Emyreal),...Miss DAVIDSON.
Hyacene(the Mercureal),...Miss BRADLAUGH.
Gerania(the Symphonial),...Miss CAMPBELL.{Attendant Sprites-beautiful bgat[?], and ethereal, flitting from flower to flower, awakening the dull earth to the loveliness prepared by nature for all whose minds are alive to poetry}Ranuncina(the Genial)...Miss GREEN
Nincia(the Magical),...Mrs HUBY.
Crocusina(the Terpsichoreal),...Miss GAY.
Anemone(the Pictorial),...Miss E. GALE.
Shipwrecked Hero,...M. OMBRE.
Heroine,...Madame UMBRA.
Weniger(King of Lilliput),Master T. WATSON.
Wenigen(Queen), Miss JONES.
Kleinhertz(Minister of State), Miss ZELLA GALE.
Ninnetta(a Lilliputian Fishwife),...Miss E. DAVIS 
Jocoso(a Fisherman),...Master HUBY.
Courtiers,... Masters BOW and SCRAPE.
Policemen,...Masters GRAB and CATCH.
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THE AUTHOR'S TRICLINIUM
Grotto of Stacalactics and Basaltic Corruscations
VIEW NEAR LILLIPUT.
THE KINGDOM OF LILLIPUT
100 INFANT WARRIORS!!
BROBDIGNAGIAN LANDSCAPE!
CASTLE OF FUMBONUM
THE GIANT'S ANVIL ROCK
Spangled Lake in the Dell of Golden Fuschias
TRANSFORMATION!
Harelquin...Mr ARTHUR ROBY, from the Theatre-Royal, Covent Garden.
Columbine,...Miss H. GALE.
Pantaloon,...Herr ROBERTO, from the Royal Grecian Saloon, London.
Merry Clown,... PAUL PIETRO, from the Theatre-Royal, Drury Lane.
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On Friday Evening, Feb. 6, under the Patronage of the Worshipful
Fraternity of Free & Accepted Masons
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Whom, by Permission of the Right Worshipful Provincial Grand Master, the Brethren will appear in FULL MASONIC COSTUME.
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At the end of the Performances a Special Train to Tynemouth, Shields, &e
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NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE: M. BENSON, PRINTER.