Little Bo-Peep, or Harlequin and the Little Girl who Lost her Sheep
Little Bo-Peep, or Harlequin and the Little Girl who Lost her Sheep is a comic Christmas pantomime by John Baldwin Buckstone ()[].
Also found as Little Bopeep, or Harlequin and the Girl who Lost her Sheep
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The original text
Based on "Little Bo-Peep" or "Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep", the popular English language nursery rhyme[1], .
Published by S.G. Fairbrother in 1854
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 (Planché).
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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