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''[[ The P.L., or, 30 Strand!]]'', is a burletta in one act by Mark Lemon (1809–1870)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lemon,_Mark_(DNB00)]

==The original text==

A satire on the spate of advertising and creative placement of advertising rife in London at in the 1830s, with Warren's Blacking at the forefront. 

First performed in London at the New Strand Theatre on 25 April 1836. Published in 1836 by J. Duncombe as a libretto with untitled songs (without music) and apparently "The only edition correctly marked, by permission, from the prompter's book." 

==Translations and adaptations==

Translated into [[Dutch]] as '''''[[Warren's Blacking, 30 Strand]]''''' by "een Amateur" ("an Amateur")

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1835: Performed on 13 June in [[Dutch]] as ''[[Warren's Blacking, 30 Strand]]'' (translated from the English by "an [[Amateur]]") in the [[Kaapsche Liefhebbery Tooneel]] ("The [[Cape Amateur Theatre]]") by  the [[Dutch]] amateur company [[Vlyt en Kunst]], as afterpiece to as ''[[Pizarro]]'' (Kotzebue).

== Sources ==

John Strachan. 2007. ''Advertising and Satirical Culture in the Romantic Period'' (Cambridge University Press) P. 101. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lemon

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lemon,_Mark_(DNB00)

[[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/]: pp. 333-4, 

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