No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi

No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi is a farce in one act by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879).

Also known as No. 23, John Street, Adelphi; No. 23 John Street, Adelphi; John Street, Adelphi; and A Card! 23 John Street, Adelphi.

The original text
First performed as A Card! 23 John Street, Adelphi on 21 November 1826 in the Adelphi Theatre, London, and published as No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi in Dicks' standard plays ; no. 842 and by John Cumberland. (Cumberland's Minor Theatre, 1825)

South African productions
1847: Performed on 2 June by the 90th Light Infantry as No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi in the Amateur Theatre, Cape Town, with the farce The Red Rover, or The Mutiny of the Dolphin (Fitzball)

1847: Performed for the benefit of the Regimental School on 7 July by the 90th Light Infantry as No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi in the Amateur Theatre, Cape Town, with The Wreck Ashore (Buckstone) and "A Serio-Comic Burlesque on the Tent Scene" in Richard III (Shakespeare)

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