How to Pay the Rent

How to Pay the Rent is a farce in one act by Tyrone Power (1797-1841).

The original text
Originally produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London, in April, 1840. Published in London by Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, possibly 1840?, in New York by Berford & Co.,, 1847 and  by Samuel French, 1847;

Performance history in South Africa
1853: Performed as How to Pay the Rent in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town, by an amateur company, possibly members of Lycett's Company, as afterpiece to The Golden Farmer, or The Last Crime (Webster).

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