penny gaffs Archives - Poor theatres: theatre, performance, poverty http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk Sat, 23 Jun 2018 07:16:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 Gaffs, dukeys, geggies and penny theatres http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/gaffs-dukeys-geggies-penny-theatres-ann-featherstone/ http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/gaffs-dukeys-geggies-penny-theatres-ann-featherstone/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:50:14 +0000 http://blog.poortheatres.manchester.ac.uk/?p=337 I invited Ann Featherstone, Victorian theatre researcher and novelist, to write a guest post on penny gaffs (partly in response to the ‘Beggar’s theatre’ post – see September 2014 archive). Here it is!   Penny gaffs, penny theatres, penny dukeys, geggies were all slang words for unlicensed entertainment spaces in […]

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