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6 The following January, however, a fuller version of Racine’s play was presented in the Tapestry Room. ’7 The cast included not only Victoria and Albert’s children (who benefited from another year’s acting experience), but also those from two court families, the Seymours and the Phipps. As before, Victoria praised both the acting and the pictorial staging: The 1st part was nearly the same as last year, but the 2nd, quite new, and truly beautiful it is. 8 Happily remembering his own youthful lessons in drama at Coburg, Prince Albert was keen to have his children perform in German.
This was just as well since Victoria expressed very firm ideas on how to improve the script. Whilst generally satisfied with the performances, she was dismayed that Princess Beatrice’s character, Mrs Ironbrace, appeared only in the first act. Wishing her daughter to play a larger role, she instructed the director, Arthur Collins, to rewrite the play so that the character reappeared in the second act. The programme should contain a notice, Lieutenant-Colonel Bigge facetiously advised Sir Henry Ponsonby, that ‘[t]he return and reconciliation to her first husband of Mrs.
At a time when families entertained themselves with card games or reading aloud, putting on plays must have been tremendously exciting. Such theatrical pastimes certainly relieved the oppressive tedium that could mark domestic life for children and adults alike. Moreover, many in the respectable middle class looked on private theatricals as a safe alternative to the illicit pleasures of the professional stage. Whilst going to see plays was offensive, staging them in the privacy of one’s home was acceptable.
