The Whip (play) explained

The Whip is a melodrama by Henry Hamilton and Cecil Raleigh, first performed in 1909 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. The play's original production had intricate scenery and spectacular stage effects, including a horse race and a train crash. There were later productions in the United States and Australia, and the play inspired two silent films.

Reception

Tallulah Bankhead offers a reminiscence of attending The Whip at the Manhattan Opera House as a child:^[1]

The heroine, "Lady Di" Sartoris, created by Jessie Bateman, was referenced in P. G. Wodehouse's Heavy Weather (1933).^[2]

Adaptations

A novelization by Richard Parker was published in 1913.^[3] The play was adapted into films of the same name in 1917 and again in 1928.

Sources

• Book: Poppiti . Kimberly . Equestrian Drama: An Anthology of Plays . 25 July 2022 . 10.4324/9780429274152-5 . The Whip, by Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton (1909) . 1st . Routledge . 9780429274152 . https://books.google.com/books?id=s159EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT172 .
• The Whip . The Play Pictorial . 1909 . 14 . 276–301 . Greening . en . limited .

External links

• • Photographs of the stage settings for The Whip

Notes and References

1. Book: Bankhead, Tallulah . Tallulah:My Autobiography . V. Gollancz . London . 1952 . 42.
2. Web site: Heavy Weather by P. G. Wodehouse Literary and Cultural References . Madame Eulalie . https://web.archive.org/web/20220629133736/https://www.madameulalie.org/annots/pgwbooks/pgwhvw1.html#chapter05 . 29 June 2022.
3. Web site: Parker . Richard . Raleigh . Cecil . The Whip . The Macaulay company . 14 March 2023 . 1913.