The Irish Widow

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The Irish Widow is a farce in two acts by David Garrick (1717 – 1779)[1]


The original text

The plot in part derived from of Le Mariage Forcé [2] by Molière. The Garrick play first staged at the Drury Lane Theatre on 23 October 1772 and first published in 1772, for T. Becket.

Translations and adaptations

Performances in South Africa

1824: Presented in Cape Town, in South Africa under by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre on 22 May, as afterpiece to The Mountaineers (Colman).

1824: Presented in Cape Town, in South Africa under by the English Theatricals in the African Theatre on 12 June, as afterpiece to Lovers' Vows (Inchbald/Kotzebue)

1838: Performed on 2 April by the 27th Enniskillen Regiment (see Garrison Players) in "The Theatre, New Barracks" (see Barracks Theatre) with The Rivals (Sheridan).

Sources

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Mariage_forc%C3%A9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garrick

http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/prescrip/18thcComedy/plays/64_gar_irish.html

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

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 196, 198-199,

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