On 1 December 1855, while she was ‘on tour’, a fire broke out in the United States Hotel, Ballarat, quickly razing all the new wooden buildings on Main Street before consuming the Adelphi Theatre. When Sarah Hanmer left Ballarat, she was well off financially, supported by rent derived from a number of properties she still owned in the town.

2024年2月3日 · Wright’s portrait of the theatre manager and actor Sarah Hanmer is an example of the social fluidity, upward mobility and political influence of women working in theatre during these times. Hanmer’s Adelphi Theatre was a fixed-up tent on the diggings (Wright 2013: 243), which became the venue for the Ballarat Reform League, the principal ...

Sarah and her daughter were set to make a remarkable and significant contribution to the social fabric of one of Australia’s foremost goldfields towns.

Prime among these is the actress Sarah Hanmer, who established one of Ballarat's first theatres, the Adelphi, and actively supported the diggers' cause. She played an important role after the Eureka Stockade in helping the young American James McGill escape from Ballarat by dressing him in female attire.

2018年6月19日 · First in a theatre owned by somebody else, then Sarah managed to get her own, the Adelphi. The watercolour above shows her in her place of work. From the start it was a big hit. Miners toiled long hours, often in awful conditions, so at the end of the day they were in for some booze and entertainment. Sarah and her troupe supplied that.

2013年12月2日 · Or Sarah Hanmer, the Scots-Irish entrepreneur and activist who ran Ballarat’s Adelphi Theatre, which acted as the headquarters of the group driving the push for constitutional change, the...

Sarah Hanmer: The Adelphi Queen Mrs Sarah Hanmer was an American actress who, along with her daughter Julia, was ‘the chief, if not sole attraction’ of the Queen’s Theatre on the Eureka lead.33 By May 1854 she was able to open her own theatre as ‘lessee and directress’.

Sarah was known as Sarah Hanmer, Mrs Hanmer and Leicester Hanmer, she was an actress of some note at Ballarat running what is referred to as Mrs Hanmer’s Theatre at Red Hill. In 1854 she started the Adelphi Theatre [9] in Esmond Street (initially a tent but later a weatherboard that became known as The Windsor ). [10]

The Adelphi Hotel and Theatre is one of the more well-known establishments in the Ballarat Gold Rush and was established by Sarah Hanmer, a well-known performer. The Hotel was established in 1854 and was destroyed in 1855.

2024年8月12日 · The Adelphi Hotel and Theatre is one of the more well-known establishments in the Ballarat Gold Rush and was established by Sarah Hanmer, a well-known performer. The Hotel was established in 1854 and was destroyed in 1855. The theatre and hotel was re-opened in 1856 to be destroyed by fire again in 1859, after which the ground was levelled and ...