The Rent Day

The Rent Day is a domestic drama in two acts by Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857).

(Also written The Rent-Day in some sources)

The original text
First performed as at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on January 25 1832, and and published  by C. Chapple, London in the same year.

Performance history in South Africa
1854: Performed as The Rent-Day   on 5 June  in the Garrison Theatre by the Garrison Players and some local Amateurs,  with  The Spitalfields Weaver (Bayly)  and The Queen's Horse (Honan and Planché).

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