The Post-boy
The Post-boy is a drama in two acts by Henry Thornton Craven (1818-1905)[1]-
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The original text
First performed at the Strand Theatre, London, on 31 October 1860. Published as The Post-boy by Thomas Hailes Lacy in 1861 and later also by Samuel French. (French's Acting edition.) [c.1870]
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Performance history in South Africa
1877: Probably performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Luscombe Searelle and his company on 24 September. Actually, according to Bosman, 1980: p. 360, the company did a play billed as Grandfather's Darling, or The Post-boy) as partner piece to The Loan of a Lover (Planché). Bosman most probably conflated the titles of Gurney's one-act play Grandfather's Darling with that of Craven's play, and that both plays were done that night.
Sources
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Henry_Thornton_Craven_The_Post_boy?id=jdhUAAAAcAAJ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Thornton_Craven
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, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 360-1.
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