The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hall

The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hall is a comedy in two acts by Charles Dance (1794–1863).

Also referred to simply as The Country Squire by some sources.

The original text
First performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in London, on January 19th 1837.

The full title as published in Webster's Acting National Drama by Chapman and Hall in 1837(?), is The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hall, though it is wrongly given by Bosman (p.416) as The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hill. However, this may have been an error made by the performers rather than the historian.

Performance history in South Africa
1848: Performed by All the World's a Stage in Cape Town as The Country Squire, or Two Days at the Hill on Thursday 21 September 1848 in the Hope Street Theatre, accompanied by the "celebrated Ethiopian Serenaders", a clog hornpipe performance and some comic songs, before  concluding with the farce Advice Gratis also by Charles Dance.

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