Pollock's Toy Theatre Museum on Scala Street in London is still in existence, and is enjoying the revival of interest in Toy Theatre Memorabilia.  Their famous Victoria Theatre (pictured below) with Cinderella Playbook in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian and including a copy of Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Penny Plain and Twopence Coloured" is still available- - -as  is The Britannia Theatre with Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves  -  your choice $20.00
opening  16 x 15 cm,  6 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches

Pollock's Multi-Lingual Plays for the above stages:

Pollock's have also made the following brightly colored plays with sets & characters printed on cardboard available through the Toy Theatre Company.  All playbooks incorporate texts in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch or Swedish as indicated: 

Aladdin (F,G,Sp,D);  Cinderella (F,G,I,G,Sw); Harlequinade(F,G,I,Sp); Blackbeard the Pirate (F,G,I); Children in the Wood (F,G,I,D);Jack the Giant Killer (F,G,I,Sp); The Daughter of the Regiment; The Bethlehem Story.  your choice $12.00

Old fashioned Penny-Plain Plays include:

Othello, The Corsican Brothers, The Miller and his Men - - - each $10.00
* * * New * * * Robinson Crusoe with Theatre and Directions for Construction
Recently redone by George Speaight - - - $18.00
Massacre of Penny Plain
A hilarious British portrayal of a US Western Shoot-em-up or Melodrama - - - $20.00
 

ENGLISH THEATRE PROSCENIUM SHEETS to be mounted:


The Redington
(opening 28 x 28 cm), on page 51 of
Toy Theatres of the World - $35.00 

The Neptune
(opening 18 x 15 cm), 
pictured and described 
on page 37; -$25.00
 


New Regency
(small version of original) 
on page 38 - $15.00

ShadowTheatre - a  ONE  PENNY  sheet

Reprinted 1998 by B. Clarke, London 
from original c.1860 by James March.
(opening 14 x 11 cm,  5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches)

 

With four rows of figures, directions to construct the theatre, and scripts for Billy Button's Journey to Brentford, The Broken Bridge, The Goblin, The Cobler, and Guy Fawkes.  -  $20.00
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Last Updated 8 November 2000 by Gigi and Glen Sandberg