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Olympic Theatre
The Olympic Theatre, sometimes known as the Royal Olympic Theatre, was a 19th-century London theatre, opened in 1806 and located at the junction of Drury Lane, Wych Street, and Newcastle Street. The theatre specialised in comedies throughout much of its existence. Along with three other Victorian theatres (Opera Comique, Globe and Gaiety),〔(Aldwych Theatre history ), accessed 23 March 2007.〕 the Olympic was eventually demolished in 1904 to make way for the development of the Aldwych. Newcastle and Wych streets also vanished.
==1806-1849: Early days and Madame Vestris==
The first Olympic theatre was built in 1806 on the site of Drury House (later Craven House),〔1850 Ordnance Survey map〕 for the impresario Philip Astley, a retired cavalry officer. The original name of the house was the Olympic Pavilion. It was said to be built from the timbers of the French warship ''Ville de Paris''. It opened on 1 December 1806〔(Victorian Web site ), accessed 23 March 2007.〕 as 'a house of public exhibition of horsemanship and droll.'〔(City of London ), accessed 23 March 2007.〕 In 1813, Astley sold the theatre to Robert William Elliston, who refurbished the interior and renamed it the Little Drury Lane, reflecting its proximity to the large Drury Lane Theatre nearby. Elliston had the theatre substantially rebuilt and reopened it with William Thomas Moncrieff's comedy ''Rochester – or, King Charles the Second's Merry Days''. John Scott purchased the playhouse at Ellison's bankruptcy auction in 1826 and gave the building gas lighting.〔
In 1830, Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1787–1856) leased the house,〔Pearce, Charles E. (''Madame Vestris and her times'' ), New York, Brentano's, pp. 161–63〕 becoming the first female actor-manager in the history of London theatre. She had already made her fortune as a singer, a dancer (of some repute) and an actor. Together with her business partner, Maria Foote, and later with her husband, the actor Charles James Mathews, who joined the company in 1835, Madame Vestris initiated several theatrical innovations, such as the use of historically correct costumes and more elaborate scenery, including a box set with ceiling, which she is said to have introduced in Britain.〔 Her stewardship began with a programme of four pieces including ''Olympic Revels'',〔(Theatre Museum (PeoplePlay) ), accessed 23 March 2007.〕 and under her management the theatre continued to feature light comedies including music, which were legally styled burlettas and whose licence she had been granted by the Lord Chamberlain.〔Bratton, Jacky. ("Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth (1797–1856)" ), ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 12 March 2014 ISBN 978-0-19-861411-1〕 Many were written by J. R. Planché and Charles Dance, featuring Vestris in breeches roles, and the popular comedian of the day, John Liston. The plays often burlesqued classical themes: ''My Great Aunt – or, Relations and Friends; The Loan of a Lover; The Court Beauties; The Garrick Fever; Faint Heart Never Won Fair Lady; Olympic Revels – or Prometheus and Pandora; Olympic Devils – or Orpheus and Eurydice; The Paphian Bower – or Venus and Adonis; Telemachus – or The Island of Calypso''.〔(Victorian Plays ), accessed 23 March 2007.〕 While Vestris' licence only allowed the performance of extravaganzas and burlesques, the quality of the performance was paramount, with much time spent on rehearsal and selection of the company.〔
The 1840s were a period of decline for the theatre. Madame Ventris gave her last performance in 1839 and left to join the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden,〔 and the house writers, E. L. Blanchard, John Courtney, Thomas Egerton Wilks, and I. P. Wooler, have not met with posthumous fame.〔 A fire in 1849 is characterised by the Victorian Web as 'suspicious.'
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