Victorine

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Victorine is a domestic melodrama by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802–1879)[1].


The original text

Based on a French musical play of the same name by **.

Full original title in one early published English version: Victorine, or "I'll Sleep on It", and in another Victorine, or The Orphan of Paris (claiming to be "The only edition correctly marked, by permission, from the prompter's book.") Also found as Victorine's Dream, or The Orphan of Paris.

First performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi in London at the Adelphi in 1831, repeated in 1837.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1847: Performed in the Drury Lane Theatre, Cape Town as Victorine by Parker's Company, as part of a prosperous season.

1850: Performed in the Hope Street Theatre, Cape Town as Victorine's Dream, or The Orphan of Paris by Parker's Company, with Woman's the Devil.


Sources

The Spectator 12 November 1831, Page 16 [2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone

Google Books[3]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [4]: pp. 418-9

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