
Sidney Sime – Renowned Theatrical Caricaturist – T372
26 November 2025 @ 3:00 pm - 4:15 pm GMT
Overview
Talk by Mary Broughton & Sam Messinger
This talk explores the background of the golden era of Victorian/Edwardian theatre. Discover Sime’s extraordinary rags to riches background and introduction to his life in London. We will be showing some of Sime’s theatrical caricatures that were published in the London periodicals of the time. The Sime Gallery has 213 of these! You will see the humour, characterisation and variety of artistic interpretation Sime gives to his drawings as well as the fascinating stories of some of the actors.
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