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A Pyrodrama was a type of mass entertainment, popular in the late 1880s. Performances such as those took place at vast outdoor places, ready to receive up to ten thousand spectators with a cast of almost three hundred. They focused on a collective identification with the past. Finally, this form of amusement contributed to that period’s models of reconstructing the life and death of Pompeii.
There was already a theatrical re-enactment of the fall of Pompeii on display at Coney Island in the 1880s. It was created by James Pain, a British entertainments entrepreneur who was part of a family that had been in the fireworks business for centuries. ... An early version of Pain’s show was performed in London in the 1870s. On Coney Island various pyrodramas on The Last Days of Pompeii remained on the program until 1914.
