The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam)

The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) is a comic work by an unknown author, performed in South Africa in the 1860s.

The original text
Billed as a "side-splitting entertainment", the work is ascribed to Arthur H. Ward by F.C.L. Bosman (1980: p. 260). However this is highly unlikely, since the performance referred to dates from 1867, and Ward was only born in 1883, so it is most probably another, earlier, burlesque-style work by an unknown author.

See also: Le Bal Masqué

Performance history in South Africa
1867: A "side-splitting entertainment" called The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) was performed by Le Roy and Duret in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 8 June, with Othello in Ireland ("semi-serio" opera based on Shakespeare).

1867: The Bal Masqué (Sloppy Sam) repeated by Leroy and Duret in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 15 June, with The Rose of Ettrick Vale.

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