The Two Clowns
The Two Clowns is a "comic act" by an unnamed author.
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The original text
No specific act by this name has been traced, so it was probably a locally devised clown act, though it could have been a burlesque version of something else, the always popular "Gravedigger scene" from Hamlet for instance.
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Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed in Cape Town by Alfred Ray as part of the repertoire of Santanna's Circus.
Sources
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.242
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