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New BALLET OF ACTION, and a New GRAND SPECTACLE.
ASTLEY’s.
Under the Patronage of their Royal Highnesses the Prince of WALES and Duke of YORK.
THIS present EVENING, August 4, and every Evening This Week, will be presented a new Ballet of Action, composed by Mr. Giroux, Junior, with new scenery, dresses, and music, called THE HAPPY DISGUISE, or Love in Spain. After which, never performed, a New Spectacle, called THE POLISH TYRANT, or the Woman of Ten Thousand; pourtraying [sic], in the following new Scenes, the sufferings of a kind Husband, the affection of his Son, the faithfulness of his Servant, and the intrepidity of his captive Wife, under the Tyranny of a Polish Chief.—Mountainous View, and Friendly Cottage.—The Secret Path discovered—The Polish Tyrant’s Court-yard.—The Gloomy Dungeon.—Presence Chamber of the Polish Chief.—Grand Banquet. Servants Hall.—Subterraneous Cavern.—The Long Gallery.—The Stranger’s Bed-chamber.—Mountainous View.—The Servant’s Hall.—The Dungeon of Horror.—Polish Landscape.—The Tyrant’s Castle. Principal characters, Poniatowski, MR. La Toise, and Sobieska (the Woman of Ten Thousand) Mrs. Astley.—Feats of Horsemanship, particularly the Antipodean Equestrian, a Boy only Nine Years old. To conclude with a Comic Pantomime, called LAUGH AND LAY DOWN, or Harlequin King of Spades.
Doors open at Half past Five, begin at Half past Six o’clock precisely.
