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Adapted from H. Rider Haggard's classic adventure/lost civilisation story She, this Pat Finn burlesque-style pantomime was possibly subtitled 'The White Queen of the Amahagger.'
Haggard's original story, serialized in 1886 and 1887, is a first-person narrative that follows the journey of young Cambridge professor Horace Holly and his ward Leo Vincey to a lost kingdom in the African interior. There, they encounter a primitive race of natives and a mysterious white queen, Ayesha, who reigns as the all-powerful "She", or "She-who-must-be-obeyed". In this work, Rider Haggard developed the conventions of the Lost World sub-genre, which many later authors emulated.
[Source: Australian Variety Theatre Archive]
Production Details
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1901: Ye Olde Englyshe Fayre, Fremantle (Western Australia; 26-29 December
- Producer/Director W. H. Speed.
- Troupe: W.H. Speed's Specialty Company.
- Cast incl. Mrs W. H. Speed (She, the White Queen of the Armahagger), B. Henry (Major Horace Holly), Bert Thomas (Leo Tinney, the Major's ward), Neva Glynn (Eustance, a Goddess), W.H. Speed (Ballali, an Ethiopian King and servant of She), Tom Leopold (Job, the Unicorn Goose and slave of Major Holly), C. R. Jones (Theodore Fatman, a swell from home), Lottie Hunstead (Ayestra, a daughter of the Armahagger and medicine woman).
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