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1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on  
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1861: Billed as a "Grand Comic Pantome" it was performed as ''[[Little Bo-Peep, or Harlequin and the Little Girl who Lost her Sheep]]'' by [[Sefton Parry]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 15 July.
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1861: Performed by [[Sefton Parry]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 18 July, with ''[[The Loan of a Lover]]'' ().
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1861: Performed by [[Sefton Parry]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 20 July, as a morning performance.
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1861: Performed by [[Sefton Parry]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 22 July, with ''[[Time Tries All]]'' (Courtney).
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1861: Performed by [[Sefton Parry]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 29 July, with ''[[The Middy Ashore]]'' (Bernard). 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 05:09, 20 July 2020

Little Bo-Peep, or Harlequin and the Little Girl who Lost her Sheep is an English pantomime by

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1861: Billed as a "Grand Comic Pantome" it was performed as Little Bo-Peep, or Harlequin and the Little Girl who Lost her Sheep by Sefton Parry and his company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 15 July.

1861: Performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 18 July, with The Loan of a Lover ().

1861: Performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 20 July, as a morning performance.

1861: Performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 22 July, with Time Tries All (Courtney).

1861: Performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 29 July, with The Middy Ashore (Bernard).

Sources

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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