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Veronica Castro

Assistant Curator, Theatre and Performance

Assistant Curator in the Theatre and Performance collections at Blythe House. Currently cataloguing the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company archive.

Theatre and Performance

Interviewing Modern and Contemporary Performance Curator, Anna Landreth-Strong

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Theatre and Performance

Introducing the D’Oyly Carte Archive

Curator of Popular Entertainment Catherine Haill gives us a brief history of one of the jewels in the crown of the V&A Theatre and Performance collections. The D’Oyly Carte...

Theatre and Performance

Guest Post – The First Gas-Lit Stage

We welcome our guest blogger Pieter van der Merwe to illuminate the story of the first gas-lit stages in Britain. A forgotten London theatrical ‘first’, 5 August 1816...

Theatre and Performance

Band Aid Trust Collection – a new Theatre and Performance acquisition

I remember bobbing heads, more heads than I’d ever seen in one place. I remember a man on stage; an angry man. He had a lot of hair and was shouting at the heads. They...