Still Waters Run Deep produced at The Royal Olympic on this day in 1855

On the 14th of May 1855 'Still Waters Run Deep' was produced at the Olympic Theatre, London. The play was written by Tom Taylor and was an adaptation of Charles de Bernards 'Novel of le Gendre.' Tom Taylor was a well known playwright who had his greatest success as a writer for Punch magazine. Taylor had over 100 plays produced but his most famous one is 'Our American Cousin' which was a massive success in the USA. It was declared to be one of the funniest plays written by the American critics although today the play is remembered as being the play that was on in the Ford Theatre the night Abraham Lincoln was shot.