Becky Sharp
Becky Sharp refers to:
- a one-act play by Oliver Conway
- the play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell [1], (Becky Sharp (1899): a dramatization of Thackeray's Vanity Fair).
Not to be confused with the 1935 film [[2]].
Contents
The original text
Published in One-act Plays of Today edited by J.W. Marriott, 1924 [3].
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1902: The Mitchell play presented by Miss Kate Vaughan's Company at the Opera House, Cape Town in July and at the Gaiety Theatre, Johannesburg in November, produced by Frank de Jong and Leonard Rayne.
1932: The Conway play presented by the Repertory Theatre Society, later known as the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society performed on 25 July 1932 with A Marriage Has Been Arranged and The Bride.
Sources
NELM: [Collection: FLETCHER, Jill]: 2005. 75. 19. 61.
[4].
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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