sentences:  The pieces premiered there included W. S. Gilbert's farce, "A Medical Man" (1872) and his one-act comic opera, "Eyes and No Eyes" (1875).John Baldwin Buckstone wrote "Married Life", and John Maddison Morton wrote "Slasher and Crasher" for the hall, both in 1872.In addition to performances, there were regular lectures in the hall, the Chartist Gerald Massey gave a series of lectures in 1872, on "Christianity and Spiritualism".