Woodcock's Little Game

Woodcock's Little Game is a comedy-farce in two acts John Maddison Morton (1811–1891) [1].

The original text

First performed in London at the Royal St. James Theatre, under the management of Benjamin Webster, on Thursday, 6th October, 1864 and published by Samuel French.

Performance history in South Africa

1875: Performed as Woodcock's Little Game in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 11 March, with The Pilgrim of Love (Byron).

1878: Performed as Woodcock's Little Game in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 6 February, with William Tell William Tell with a Vengeance, or The Pet, the Parrot and the Pippin (Byron) and the "Transformation scene" from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

1878: Performed as Woodcock's Little Game in the Good Hope Gardens, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 26 March.

Sources

Transcribed copy of the original published text, Project Gutenberg[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 322, 329, 365-6.

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