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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1800: First produced in South Africa by [[Dr Somers]] and [[Garrison Players|Officers from the Garrison]] in the Military Hospital, Cape Town in May 1800. According to [[Lady Anne Barnard]] (cited in [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: p. 61) the play's title was given as ''[[Teasle]]''. This performance was the spark that inspired [[Sir George Yonge]] to create [[The African Theatre]]. It also contained what is claimed by [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (citing Laidler's Annals, p. 11) to possibly be one of the earliest pieces of local writing for the theatre in [[Mrs Somers]]'s [[prologue]] to the performance.
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1800: First produced in South Africa by [[Dr Somers]] and [[Garrison Players|Officers from the Garrison]] in the Military Hospital, Cape Town in May 1800. According to [[Lady Anne Barnard]] (cited in [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: p. 61) the play's title was given as ''[[Teasle]]''. This performance was the spark that inspired [[Sir George Yonge]] to create [[The African Theatre]]. It also contained what is claimed by [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] (citing [[P.W. Laidler]]'s ''Annals of the Cape Stage'', p. 11) to possibly be one of the earliest pieces of local writing for the theatre in [[Mrs Somers]]'s [[prologue]] to the performance.
  
 
1808: Performed in the [[African Theatre]] by the [[Garrison Players]] on 2 July 1808, as afterpiece to ''[[The Gamester ]]'' (Moore).
 
1808: Performed in the [[African Theatre]] by the [[Garrison Players]] on 2 July 1808, as afterpiece to ''[[The Gamester ]]'' (Moore).

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A satirical comedy by Samuel Foote. First produced in London in 1752, at the Drury Lane theatre.

Performance history in South Africa

1800: First produced in South Africa by Dr Somers and Officers from the Garrison in the Military Hospital, Cape Town in May 1800. According to Lady Anne Barnard (cited in F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[1]: p. 61) the play's title was given as Teasle. This performance was the spark that inspired Sir George Yonge to create The African Theatre. It also contained what is claimed by Bosman (citing P.W. Laidler's Annals of the Cape Stage, p. 11) to possibly be one of the earliest pieces of local writing for the theatre in Mrs Somers's prologue to the performance.

1808: Performed in the African Theatre by the Garrison Players on 2 July 1808, as afterpiece to The Gamester (Moore).

Translations and adaptations

Sources

Bosman 1928: p 60-61, 76,

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

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