The Toy Shop
The Toy Shop is a short play by Percival Wilde (1887-1953)[1]
Not to be confused with The Toy-Shop: A Musical Play by Phyllis McGinley and Gladys Rich (1928).[2]
Contents
The original text
A play about a little rich boy and a little poor girl locked in the toy shop. Tagged as "A Christmas play for children".
Published by Walter H. Baker Company, 1923 and later by Samuel French
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
No evidence of a South African performance noted to date.
Sources
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Toy_Shop.html?id=DTg3AQAAIAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percival_Wilde
https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/7834/the-toy-shop
https://www.librarything.com/work/11292920
A photocopy of the text found in the Stellenbosch Drama Department's theatre archives and now held in the Performing Arts Research Collection (PARC) at the Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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