Le Pèlerin Blanc, ou Les Orphelins du Hameau

Le Pèlerin Blanc, ou Les Orphelins du Hameau ("The White Pilgrim, or the Children of the Village") is a melodrama in two acts by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt (1773-1844).

The original text
First performed to great success in the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, April 1801 and published in Paris in the same year.

Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as The Wandering Boys, or The Castle of Olival by John Kerr (fl. 1814-1834).

Also referred to simply as The Wandering Boys on occasion.

Performance history in South Africa
1818: Performed simply as The Wandering Boys in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs and Mr Cooke and his company, on 25 July, with as afterpiece The Mock Doctor (Fielding)

1818: Performed as The Wandering Boys in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs and Mr Cooke and his company, on 26 September 1818, with as afterpiece The Miller and his Men (Pocock). Also included two songs sung by Mr Pitt and "The Bird Duet" ( from Dibdin's  comic opera  The Cabinet, with music by J. Braham), sung by Mr Cooke and Mrs Cooke. This was a Benefit Performance for Mrs Cooke, one of the players.

1845: Performed under its full title in the Roeland Street Theatre, Cape Town on 17 July by All the World's a Stage, with The Queer Subject (Coyne) as afterpiece.

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