Easy Shaving
Easy Shaving is a farce in one act by F.C. Burnand (1836-1917)[1] and Montagu Williams (1835-1892)[2].
Contents
The original text
First performed in London at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on June 11, 1863 and published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy in the same year.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed as Easy Shaving by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 23 and 26 July, as afterpiece to The Flowers of the Forest (Buckstone).
Sources
Facsimile version of the original published text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[3]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p.211.
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