The Irish Widow

The Irish Widow is a farce in two acts by David Garrick (1717 – 1779)

The original text
The plot in part derived from of Le Mariage Forcé  by Molière. The Garrick play first staged at the Drury Lane Theatre on 23 October 1772 and first published in  1772, for T. Becket.

Performances in South Africa
1824: Presented in Cape Town, in South Africa under by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre on 22 May, as afterpiece to The Mountaineers (Colman).

1824: Presented in Cape Town, in South Africa under by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre on 12 June, as afterpiece to Lovers' Vows (Inchbald/Kotzebue)

1838: Performed on 2 April by the 27th Enniskillen Regiment (see Garrison Players) in "The Theatre, New Barracks" (see Barracks Theatre)  with The Rivals (Sheridan).

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