Whitebait at Greenwich

Whitebait at Greenwich is farce in one act by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)

In America it was apparently also performed and published under the title The Two Buzzards, or Whitebait at Greenwich.

The original text
First Performed at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, London, on Monday, November 13th, 1853.

Published in London as Lacy's Acting Edition no. 175 in the 1853, later also by Samuel French in 1860.

Later also published in America as The Two Buzzards, or Whitebait at Greenwich in Spencer's Boston Theatre 1856), in Sergel's Acting Drama in 1888 and again in Boston by W.H. Baker & Co., c1889.

Performance history in South Africa
1877: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 6 November, with The Beggar's Petition, or A Father's Love and A Mother's Care (Pitt).

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