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''[[Patience]]'' is a comic opera by W.S. Gilbert (1836–1911)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._S._Gilbert] and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Sullivan] 

== The original text ==
A 1881

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1890: Performed in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town in January by an opera company managed and directed by [[Edgar Perkins]]. The company included [[R.S. Gregg]], [[E. le Hay]], [[Dennis Coyne]], [[Frank Wheeler]], [[Harry Miller]], [[Ada Bemister]], [[Carrie Nelson]], [[Harriet Wood]], and [[Ella Bankhardt]]. Musical direction was by [[James Hyde]].

1933: Staged by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]] 

1935: Staged by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]] 

1948: Staged by the [[Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society]] 

1950: Staged by the [[Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society]] 

1954: Staged by the [[Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society]] 

1962: Staged by the [[Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society]] 

1973: Staged by the [[Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society]] 

1979: Staged by the [[Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society]] 

1993: Staged by the [[Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society]]

== Sources ==

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patience_%28opera%29

[[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 1923. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|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]]: pp. 389-390, 

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