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''[[Bianco, ou L'homme Invisible]]'' is a melodrama in three acts by Plancher Valcourt (Philippe Alexandre Louis Pierre Plancher-Valcour, 1751-1815)[https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plancher_Valcour]


== The original text ==

Performed at the Théâtre de la Cité, and published in Paris by Barba in 1803 (the author not named in this edition).

== Translations and adaptations ==

Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[Bianko, of De Onzichtbare Man]]'', published by Hofhout. Also found as ''[[Bianko, of De Onzigtbare Man]]''. 

[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928[http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/] refers to it, rather tantalizingly, as  ''[[Blanko, of De Onzigtbare Man]]'' - possibly because the author of the programme he was using had misread the title.

== Performances in South Africa ==

1843: Performed on 1 September as ''[[Blanko, of De Onzigtbare Man]]'' (Anon) in Cape Town by [[Door Yver Vruchtbaar]], with ''[[Vier Schildwachten op éénen Post]]'' (Voge).

1843: Performed in Cape Town on 6 October in [[Dutch]] by [[Door Yver Vruchtbaar]], as ''[[Blanko, of De Onzigtbare Man]]'' with ''[[De Horoskooptrekker, of De Speculant in Effecten]]'' (Hanegraaff).

== Sources ==

http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/?/nl/items/GAR01:1805-03-16

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plancher_Valcour

Facsimile version of the 1803 French text, Internet Archive[https://archive.org/stream/biancooulhommein00planuoft#page/n3/mode/2up]

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Bianko_of.html?id=FgD6rQEACAAJ&hl=en

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: p. 444,   

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