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''[[Leap Year, or The Ladies' Privilege]]'' is a comedy in three acts by J.B. Buckstone (1802-1879)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone].


==The original text==

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1879: Performed as by [[Captain Disney Roebuck's Dramatic Company]] in the Saloon of the Royal Mailship ''Balmoral Castle'', while on its way to Cape Town with the new company, that was to tour the country till the end of 1882. According to the programme, the "entire profits of the evening to be devoted to the benefit of the ''Sailors Orphanage'' and the ''Dreadnought''" The play was no doubnt part of the company's repertoire and was performed in various parts of the country on occasion. 

== Sources ==

[[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 [[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.203-205

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