page_title: The Lyons Mail (play)
section_title: Roles
hierarchical_section_title: The Lyons Mail (play) / Roles
caption_attribution_description: English: Henry Irving in The Lyons Mail at the Lyceum Theatre (1877) - by Harry Furniss (1854-1925)
context_page_description: The Lyons Mail is an 1877 drama by Charles Reade based on his play The Courier of Lyons. The new version was written for Henry Irving for performance at the Lyceum Theatre.
  Reade's play was based on the 1796 Courrier de Lyon case in Revolutionary France, drawing inspiration from a previous play based on the case by the French writers Paul Siraudin and Louis-Mathurin Moreau. Reade had written the play specifically for the actor Charles Kean. It had its début on 26 June 1854 with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in attendance.
  The roles of Joseph Lesurques and Dubosc were played by the same actor. In the original production this was Henry Irving. Later the roles were played by his son H. B. Irving, Bransby Williams at the Lyceum Theatre and John Martin Harvey at the Savoy Theatre, who had played Joliquet in the 1891, 1893 and 1898 revivals at the Lyceum, among other actors. At the Lyceum the role of Jeanette was often played by Ellen Terry.
  The play's backdrops by Hawes Craven used in the productions at the Lyceum were destroyed in a fire in 1897 at the theatre's scenic store in Bear Lane in Southwark.
context_section_description: Cast of the 1893 production at the Lyceum Theatre in London:
  Joseph Lesurques - (Merchant of Paris) - Henry Irving
  Dubosc - (Captain of a gang of 500) - Henry Irving
  Courriol - (Member of the Gang) - William Terriss
  Choppard - (Member of the Gang) - Samuel Johnson
  Fouinard - (Member of the Gang) - John Archer
  Durochat - (Member of the Gang) - W. J. Lorriss
  Jerome Lesurques - (Father of Joseph) - Alfred Bishop
  Dorval - (a Magistrate) - Frank Tyars
  Didier - (betrothed to Julie) - William Haviland
  Joliquet - (Jerome's serving boy) - John Martin-Harvey
  Guerneau - (Friend of Lesurques) - Edward Gordon Craig
  Lambert - (Friend of Lesurques) - L. C. Lacy
  Postmaster of Montgeron - Henry Howe
  Coco - T. Reynolds
  Commissary of Police - H. W. Cushing
  Postilion - J. H. Allen
  Guard - R. P. Tabb
  Waiter - W. Marion
  Julie Lesurques - (Daughter of Joseph) - Amy Coleridge
  Marie - (a Servant) - Miss Foster
  Niece to Postmaster - Kate Phillips
  Jeanette - Jessie Millward
caption: Henry Irving as Lesurques and Dubosc - Harry Furniss (1877)
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