The Rival Valets

The Rival Valets is a farce in two acts by Joseph Ebsworth (1788–1868).

The original text
First Performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in 1825, and published by Thomas Dolby, London, in  1825.

Performance history in South Africa
1833: Performed as Rival Valets, in Cape Town by the All the World's a Stage on 21 September, with The Day After the Wedding, or A Wife’s First Lesson (Mrs Kemble), the interlude A Race for Dinner (Rodwell), and the comic sketch of The Actress Of All Work (by Oxberry, though the author is said to be unknown in the source).

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