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''[[Off Duty]]'' is a domestic comedy in one act by T. Edgar Pemberton (Thomas Edgar Pemberton, 1849-1905)[]

Sometimes found written in parenthesis as '''''[["Off Duty"]]'''''.

==The original text==

Published by [[Samuel French]] in 1886 as Issue 1864 of French's acting edition.

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1889: Performed by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, as part of a season of plays with which the company toured the country. A star member of the company was the London comedian, [[Lionel Brough]].

== Sources ==


Online Books by T. Edgar Pemberton, [[The Online Books Page]][http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Pemberton%2C%20T.%20Edgar%20(Thomas%20Edgar)%2C%201849-1905]

[[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]]: p.388

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