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1910: First performed by [[Stephen Black]]'s own company in 1910, often repeated till the 1930s.  
 
1910: First performed by [[Stephen Black]]'s own company in 1910, often repeated till the 1930s.  
  
1917: Performed in the [[Standard Theatre]], Johannesburg, in February, (by the [[Leonard Rayne Company]]??),  featuring   
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1917: Performed in the [[Standard Theatre]], Johannesburg, in February, (by the [[Leonard Rayne Company]]??),  featuring [[Martha van Hulsteyn]].  
  
  

Revision as of 07:40, 15 April 2015

A play by Stephen Black.


The original text

A hugely popular farce about the goldfields, which satirizes the individual capitalists, while employing a classical melodramatic plot.

Published in a collection Stephen Black: Three Plays, edited by Stephen Gray (Ad Donker 1984).


Adaptations and translations

Performance history in South Africa

1910: First performed by Stephen Black's own company in 1910, often repeated till the 1930s.

1917: Performed in the Standard Theatre, Johannesburg, in February, (by the Leonard Rayne Company??), featuring Martha van Hulsteyn.



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