A New Way to Pay Old Debts

A New Way to Pay Old Debts is a five-act play by Phillip Massinger (1583–1640)

The original text
Written and performed circa 1625, and printed 1633.

Performance history in South Africa
1850: Performed on 11 September by "Captain Hall's Company" (popular name at the time for the Garrison Players) in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, with as afterpiece The Sentinel by J.M. Morton.

1850: Repeated by "Captain Hall's Company" on 17 September, this time with J.M. Morton's Box and Cox as afterpiece.

1971: Presented by the University of Cape Town's University Dramatic Society at the Little Theatre in June, directed by David Lan.

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