The Midnight Wedding
The Midnight Wedding is a play by Walter Howard
Not to be confused with the 1912 Australian silent film by the same name[1]
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The original text
The play had was first performed in Australia in 1906[8] and was enormously popular.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1911: Performed in February by the Alfred Paumier and his company in the Cape Town Opera House, with Paumier as "Paul Valmar". (Bosman lists the author as "W. Howards")
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: p.435
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