The Woman in Red
La Tireuse Des Cartes is a melodrama in 3 acts by Ernest Desprez en Jules-Édouard Alboize
La tireuse de cartes: mélodrame en trois actes: par MM. Ernest Desprez et Alboize; musique de M. Obell; [1]
The Woman in Red is a drama in a prologue and three acts by J. Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[2]
La Tireuse de cartes (1799)
Not to be confused with the 1910 one act comedy La Tireuse de Cartes ("the fortune teller") by Albert Lambert (1847-1918) and Benjamin Lebreton (18..-19).
Also the title of a number of paintings, notably the famous one from 1869 by Frédéric Bazille ()[].
Contents
The original text
Translated and adapted (enlarged?) from the French by J. Stirling Coyne and turned into a drama "in a prologue and three acts" called The Woman in Red.
The English text first published by Thomas Hailes Lacy, 1872.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1878: Performed in the Theatre Royal , Cape Town, on 3 to 7 September by a company consisting of Henry Smith, Richard Thatcher (also referred to as the Smith and Thatcher Company) , with Ada Ward
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Stirling_Coyne
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13396280
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.372
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