Great War Theatre

Address: Belper DE56, UK

Performances at this Theatre

Date Script Type
1 Jan 1917 Mother’s Sailor Boy Professional
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Performers: Dot Stephens Company Other acts on bill: "Should They Marry"
13 Jan 1919 Nurse And Martyr Professional
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The Belper News, Friday 10 January 1919, advertised at The Palace, Belper on Monday 13 January and during the week the’ Special and Expensive Engagement of the Well-known Actress Cissie Langley, And No. 1 Company, In the Great War Sketches [sic] toured by all the Principal Theatres of the United Kingdom: “Nurse and Martyr.” Pronounced to be one of the Finest Sketches ever written; showing how this Nurse sacrificed her life at Duty’s Call’. The Tainted Woman would be performed on Friday. The cast of Nurse and Martyr was: General Von Muller (murderer), E. W. Bretton; Henri de Belfort (a victim to German Kulture), Jack Laurie; Pat O’Leary (of the Dublin Fusiliers), L. North; Father Poland (a Priest), L. Millard; Nurse and Martyr, Cissie Langley. The scene was the interior of a nursing home in Brussels.