The Historical Dictionary of the American Theater

ANIMALS

Animals: translation

The use of performing animals was a staple of late 19th-centurymelodrama. For example, dogs are integral to the action inUncle Tom's Cabin, which held the stage for over half a century.
Companies that carried their own scenery also had dogs trained to chase Eliza as she crossed the river on ice floes, but small troupes ofTommerswould borrow a local dog in each town and lure it after Eliza by the scent of meat hidden in the blanket she carried. Victorien Sardou'sTheodoracalled for a lion in a cage;Sarah Bernhardttraveled with a real lion, but rising stars like Lillian Olcott made do with a papier-mâché beast. Horses added to the thrill of plays likeMazeppaorBen-Hur, and to the atmospheric spectacle of plantation melodramas.
See alsoEquestrian drama.

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