Monthly Archive: November, 2019

Sweet Lavender The popular romantic comedy ‘Sweet Lavender’ was written by the Victorian playwright Sir Arthur Wing Pinero. It was staged in 1923 at the Opera House, Manchester. It was a great success in the West End and toured successfully throughout Europe and America. the author called it a “domestic drama.”  Sweet Lavender was first performed in 1888 and in...

  In 1929 Manchester theatre goers were given the opportunity to see Sherlock Holmes solve not one but two mysteries as there were two Sherlock Holmes plays that were performed within a fortnight of one another, both were from different production companies. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Despite being born in Edinburgh Arthur Conan Doyle went to boarding school in England,...