ALFRED BUNN | The Lady Actress

Oct 9, 202312 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt, Polkamania, and “The Serious Family” - Part I

PART ONE - SERIOUSLY CLASSIC The spring of 1852 was one of the saddest, most challenging times of Anna Cora Mowatt’s life. Her husband,...

Jul 30, 202313 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and Ellen Tree’s Ion

PART III: THE GRAND EXPERIMENT BEGINS [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s experience playing the lead role in...

Jul 30, 202310 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and “Ion”

PART I: THE PLAY BEGINS WITH A PUNCH Originally posted Nov. 15, 2021 [This multi-part series of entries examines Anna Cora Mowatt’s...

Jul 3, 202311 min read

Mr. Watts and the Extortionists

Originally posted Sept. 21, 2020 When I said that Walter Watts had a relatively good reputation for London theatrical manager of the...

Jul 3, 202310 min read

Anna Cora Mowatt and The Rag-Picker of Paris

Originally published July 27, 2020 I want to start today’s entry with a complaint about standard volumes of nineteenth century theater...