There were times when the yoke1 of this galling2 slavery was rendered lighter3. Among the prisoners at Emu Plains a theatre was established under the auspices4 of one “Jemmy King”, a most eccentric genius, on a small scale, who was at once architect, manager, carpenter, scene-painter, decorator, machinist, mechanician, and to crown all, a very passable comic actor.
What rendered this combination of talents more extraordinary, Jemmy could neither read nor write, the only method he possessed5 of learning his parts being to listen while another read them; and though during these lessons the ever busy fingers of Manager King would still be at work, perhaps in the discordant6 avocation7 of a tinker, employed in making or mending the theatrical9 lamps, yet none of the corps10 dramatique were more perfect at rehearsal11.
The theatre, as before stated, had few external charms. It was formed only of slabs12 and bark; yet the interstices of the walls being filled in with mud, and the whole of the interior whitewashed13 with pipeclay, of which there was abundance near, it produced no despicable effect by candlelight. The whole affair was under the benign14 patronage15 of the superintendent16, who bestowed17 upon the performers many indispensables for their use. Of course, in New South Wales, there was no lack of timber. The materials for the walls of the edifice18 were thus easily procured19, as were also those for the very rude seats of the pit and boxes — for to no less than the latter accommodation did the ambitious followers20 of Thespis at Emu aspire21 — together with the framework of the scenes.
The canvas necessary was obtained in fragments of bags, prisoners’ duck clothing, bed ticks, etc., and painted in distemper with pipeclay, charcoal22 and various coloured earths. Lamps and candlesticks were fabricated from worn-out tin pots and dishes by the never-failing hands of King. Materials to light the theatre were supplied by voluntary contributions of the officials, who, forming the haut ton of the establishment, received candles, or oil, as part of their supply of rations23 from the governmerit stores.
But the wardrobe! Oh, the wardrobe! No powers of language can enable me to do justice to a description of the wardrobe.
In the first place, to survey “King Artexomines” in the solemn extravaganza of Bumbastes Furioso: his glittering crown was composed of odds24 and ends of tin and copper25, brightly furbished, most of it garnished26 with pieces of window glass set on parti-coloured foils of a flowing wig27 fabricated of bits of sheepskin, the wool being powdered with bone ashes; a gaudy28 fringe of fur bedecked a regal mantle29 that in the days of its pristine30 freshness had been a purple stiff cloak with cape31 and hood32, and belonging to “Mother” Row, the wife of the camp constable33; which splendid fur trimming had once covered a native cat, in the glossy34 spotted35 coat of which indulgent observers might detect a very faint resemblance to the imperial ermine; and to complete the truly magnificent ensemble36 of this august monarch37, his boots of russet hue38 had assumed their present form from the legs of an ancient pair of duck trousers, whilom the property of Manager King, dyed to that colour by the juice of wattle-bark.
The caput of the doughty39 “General Bumbastes” was surmounted40 by a magnificent cocked scraper, the body of which was pasteboard covered over with black cloth, once appertaining to the skirts of the parson’s coat, adorned41 with a floating forest of feathers that waved gallantly43 in the breeze, the latter being supplied at the expense of the barndoor cocks belonging to Regentville, a host of whom had been denuded44 of their tails for this purpose. The stalwart general’s coat had once covered a corporal of the guard; but the theatrical tailor having turned it, and having with great difficulty procured a consignment45 of cast-off copper lace and bullion46 from the military officers at Sydney, this was newly furbished for the occasion, and now shone most resplendently decorative47 on the brawny48 breast and shoulders of the (pot?) valiant49 hero, whose unwhisperables of humble50 duck were clean washed and fancifully braided in a most ingenious manner with strips of old blue cloth. A pair of monstrous51 policeman’s boots, equipped with glittering tin spurs having rowells as big round as dollars, ended the martial52 person of the ferocious53 commander, who was, moreover, supplied with a sword that in point of size might have done honour to old “Bell the Cat” himself. The blade and guard were each composed of the very best hoop-iron, well scoured54 and bright, however, and the sword knot, to furnish which all the ragged55 silk handkerchiefs within a mile had been laid under contribution, might have vied in size with the swab of a 74-gun ship.
The rest of the properties of the theatre at Emu were of a like description; but seen at night, and from a distance, they appeared in the eyes of most of the beholders to be quite faultless. True it is, the chiefest number of the audiences, being composed of either the small settlers of the Nepean or their wives and children, had no more exalted56 idea of theatrical splendour than might be derived57 from the exhibitions of travelling mountebanks, or at best a strolling company of comedians58 in a country barn.
But there were at times others among the spectators of the humble attempts or the brethren of the sock and buskin: the then Chief Justice, nay59, the very representative of royalty60 himself, having deigned61 to honour the Emu Theatre with their presence, moved, it may be supposed, by the novelty of the thing, and a desire to observe what kind of shifts could be made by men as utterly62 destitute63 of all means and appliances as even their great prototype Thespis, who first represented comedies in the early days of Athens to his then rude countrymen, having only a waggon64 for a stage and the sky for a canopy65.
Visits such as these, of course, were hailed as great honours and prepared for with corresponding anxiety. Ralph formed one of the corps when it was honoured by a “bespeak” from the Chief Justice, who was then residing at Regentville for the vacation with all his family; and the Knight66 who owned that spacious67 and wealthy estate, together with a perfect galaxy68 of the élite of Australian aristocracy, proposed to accompany his illustrious visitor to the entertainment.
King having laid before the superintendent a list of the pieces they were ready to represent, it was forwarded to Sir John, who selected Raymond and Agnes, followed by The Devil to Pay, for the evening’s performance.
Dire69 was now the turmoil70 among all the hangers-on in the theatre, that structure, in the first place, requiring repairs, and all the interior to be whitewashed and redecorated. The scenery, too, and the dresses wanted a good deal of touching71 up. Rehearsals72 must be had and the properties looked to.
It must be borne in mind that every one of them engaged in these multifarious avocations73 had withal to labour in the fields at different kinds of work from sunrise to sunset every week day save Saturday, which could not, of course, be pitched upon, as it would be inconvenient74, on account of the lateness of the performance encroaching on the hours of the Sabbath before the audience could reach their respective abodes75. The indefatigable76 King and his trusty coadjutors worked nearly all the intervening nights with great zeal77, for to these stage-struck heroes it was truly a labour of love.
By the time the period of representation had arrived, all was prepared much to the satisfaction of the manager himself, who, upon surveying the effect of his labours from the pit just after the whole was brilliantly illuminated78 by four small lamps and full twelve mould candles, rubbed his hands in an ecstasy79, and cried, “Well now! This is something like.”
With palpitating hearts, partly through the haste of their running home from work, partly through awe80 at the greatness of their expected guests, did the assembled Company prepare for their début, and precisely81 at seven o’clock — in newspaper phrase — the “orchestra struck up an overture”. This orchestra, by the by, consisted of four instruments, namely a violin — only so styled in the theatre; elsewhere it received the humbler appellation82 of a fiddle83 —; a flute84, much akin8 to a fife in sharpness of tone; a tambourine85, profusely86 decorated with tin jingles87, and the handiwork of Manager King; and a huge drum, which owed its origin to the same omni-capable personage, to whom must also be ascribed all the honour and glory of fabricating the flute, and though last, not least, the fiddle also — beg pardon, violin, I mean — the material of which was King’s great panacea88, tin. Tin served him in an infinity89 of ways; of it he made all sorts of articles, swords and scabbards, spurs and spectacles, decorations and diamonds.
But lo! the curtain now draws up, and the play begins. The melodrama90 was received with rapturous applause by the unwashed multitude who crowded the pit, and with better expressed approbation91 by the occupants of the boxes; the only drawback to the manager’s satisfaction being that a number of the men belonging to the camp, as there was no gallery, had taken undisturbed possession of the roof, where they vented92 their criticisms in rather an obstreperous93 manner, deaf to the dignified94 remonstrances95 of the irritated Jemmy King, who ever and anon devoted96 them to the deis infernis in “curses, not loud, but deep”.
At length, the sweet symphony of the musicians failing to extract any more plaudits from the auditory, it was judged time to commence the after-piece, which also was received very courteously97. In fact, it went off well, but for one trifling98 incident, which, however, luckily passed unnoticed by the audience, though it elicited99 a series of grave rebukes100 from the manager. It was thus. The representative of “Jobson”, having made rather free with some wine which the Knight of Regentville had presented to the performers to solace101 their thirst during their labours, was somewhat too energetic in applying the stirrup-leather to the shoulders of his sleeping partner “Nell”, whose prototype on this occasion was a strapping102 young man of twenty-two, and as Master “Jobson” observed his spouse103 for the nonce winced104 somewhat under this application, he took a malicious105 pleasure in repeating the dose when not required by the action of the drama. At last the patience of the quondam “Nell” being quite exhausted106, he went close up to “Jobson”, and shaking a fist as large as a moderate sized leg of mutton in his face, said, sotto voce however, “D—— your eyes. If you do that again I’ll knock your infernal head off.” Luckily, at this moment there was a slight noise in the pit, which prevented the words being heard; but the natural energy of the gesture which accompanied them elicited a loud “Bravo! Bravo!” from Sir John, which recalled the recollection of the exasperated107 wight, or he might have proceeded to put his threat into execution, as he was by no means a person to stand upon trifles.
The performance concluded happily, and a respectful valedictory108 address having been delivered by the manager, the company prepared to depart. Prior to their doing so, however, the Chief Justice requested that the performers be brought to the entrance before he took his leave, in order that he might have an opportunity of examining their disguises more closely. This request, of course, from so exalted a personage assumed all the force of a command, and in a few minutes the Company of actors was mustered109 in a double line leading from the foot of the rude staircase to the entrance of the theatre.
The superintendent led the way, followed by his visitors, among whom were several ladies, who viewed the quasi-female performers with unmixed amazement110 on discovering that the chief representative of the softer sex on these primitive111 boards had, like Sir John Falstaff in the dress of the cunning woman of Brentford, a most unmitigated growth of whiskers, which the wearer valued so much that he would on no account consent to the sacrifice of them, but rather had contrived112 a head-dress with much art, the fastenings of which served pretty well, at a distance, to conceal113 these very unfeminine appendages114 to a female eye; but on a closer view the quondam lady of the gallant42 Knight in the play was discovered to be neither more nor less than a brawny bullock-driver, clad in attire115 which, though perhaps it might once have decorated a duchess, yet, if ever such was the case, its present dilapidated state and faded glories distinctly told of its having been a very, very long time before.
Nor was the astonishment116 of the gentlemen present much less, to observe the many shifts which it now became apparent had been resorted to in order to trick forth117 the male performers for the purpose of enabling them to “strut and fret118 their hour upon the stage” with something like dresses approximating to fitting costume. In particular, Ralph Rashleigh’s dress, as conjuror119, elicited the admiration120 of the Chief justice, who had some difficulty in believing that the flowing wig which adorned his head was made of so humble a material as sheepskin, which after personal examination His Honour satisfied himself to be the case, and remarking that “necessity was the most fruitful parent of invention”, he returned the wig to its wearer, paying him, at the same time, a well-deserved compliment upon his ingenuity121, and slipping a pound note unobserved into his hand, saying in a low tone as he did so, “For yourself.”
The guests now departed, the Knight of Regentville and all his party having expressed their high satisfaction at the entertainment, and made such presents to the manager for the Company as, with gifts more suited to their humble circumstances made by other spectators, enabled that functionary122 to distribute a share amounting to no less than ten shillings to each of the musicians and fifteen shillings to the performers.
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rehearsal
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edifice
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procured
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followers
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charcoal
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rations
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odds
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copper
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garnished
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mantle
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cape
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constable
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glossy
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spotted
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monarch
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adorned
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gallant
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gallantly
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consignment
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bullion
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decorative
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brawny
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valiant
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comedians
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royalty
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utterly
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