Nothing Venture, Nothing Win

Nothing Venture, Nothing Win is a comic drama in two acts by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[].

Sometimes advertised as Never Venture, Never Win by producers/press? (See F.C.L. Bosman, 1980: note 227 on p. 231).

The original text
First performed at The Strand Theatre, London, on 5 April, 1858 and published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.

Performance history in South Africa
1858: Performed by the Cape Town Dramatic Club (and "several amateur gentlemen") in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 7 October, with Bombastes Furioso! (Rhodes). A benefit for the Eastern City.

1859: Performed by the Cape Town Dramatic Club in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 7 October, as prelude to Electra, or A New Electrical Light (Talfourd).

1868: A play called Never Venture, Never Win is performed by the Le Roy and Duret Company in New Market Building, Cape Town, on 1 January.

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