The School Mistress
The School Mistress is a farce by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)[1]
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The play tells of the complications at a girls' boarding school when the headmistress is away, leaving her feckless husband in charge.
The play opened at the Court Theatre, London in March 1886 and ran for 291 performances. It had a short run at the Standard Theatre, New York, in December 1886.
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Performance history in South Africa
1887: Performed as part of a series of plays put on by the Wheeler Brothers at the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, in April and May. The company had been recruited in England by the Wheeler company's manager, Frank Westin, and the reportedly fine staging was the responsibility of Sutton Vane, who had newly joined the Wheeler enterprise.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Schoolmistress
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero
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 1932. (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.384
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