The Dancing Girl

The Dancing Girl is a drama in four acts by Henry Arthur Jones (1851–1929)[1]

There is also a 1891 short story of this name by the Japanese writer Mori Ōgai. However the theme is totally different.[2]

The original text

First produced at the Haymarket Theatre, London, on 15 January, 1891 and on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, August 31, 1891. Published privately in 1891 (probably by Chiswick Press), before the production , as was Jones's custom, the text was only published commercially by Samuel French in 1907.

Translations and adaptations

Filmed in 1915 as The Dancing Girl by the Famous Players Film Company and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is based on the play by Henry Arthur Jones and was directed by Allan Dwan.

Performance history in South Africa

1902: Performed in the Opera House, Cape Town, in June by Kate Vaughan and her company.

Sources

Russell Jackson. 1982. Plays by Henry Arthur Jones. British and American Playwrights (Volume 13), Cambridge University Press: p. 225[3].

John Russell Stephens. 2006. The Profession of the Playwright: British Theatre, 1800-1900. Cambridge University Press: pp. 133-135.[4]

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 1923. (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. 410.

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