The Fairy's Dilemma
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Harlequin and the Fairy's Dilemma, retitled The Fairy's Dilemma shortly after the play opened, is a play in two acts by W. S. Gilbert that parodies the harlequinade that concluded 19th-century pantomi
Jessie Bateman as the Fairy
Violet Vanbrugh
Arthur Bourchier
The Rev. Aloysius Parfitt and Sir Trevor Mauleverer
Violet Vanbrugh
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Violet Augusta Mary Bourchier, née Barnes, known professionally as Violet Vanbrugh, was an English actress with a career that spanned more than fifty years.
The Fairy's Dilemma
…Charlie". The Fairy's Dilemma was Gilbert's last full-length non-musical play. Arthur Bourchier had leased the Garrick in 1900, and he and his wife Violet Vanbrugh starred in numerous plays there over the next six years often producing new works, including The Fairy's Dilemma. The piece garnered enthusiastic…
Violet Vanbrugh in 1907
Vanbrugh c. 1889, perhaps as Kitty Maitland in The Don
As Portia in The Merchant of Venice, painted by William Hatherell