Colour lantern slide of a girl with a horse and foal.. Part of Box 197 'Sayings', Boswell Collection. The Whip is a melodrama by Henry Hamilton (playwright) and Cecil Raleigh, first performed in 1909 at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. The play's original production had intricate scenery and spectacular stage effects, including a horse race and a train crash. The production would tour overseas and inspire a 1917 film by the same name.