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''[[Woodcock's Little Game]]'' is a comedy-farce in two acts John Maddison Morton (1811–1891) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton]. 

==The original text==


First performed in London at the Royal St. James Theatre, under the management of Benjamin Webster, on Thursday, 6th October, 1864 and published by Samuel French.

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1875: Performed as ''[[Woodcock's Little Game]]'' in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 11 March, with ''[[The Pilgrim of Love]]''  (Byron).

1878: Performed as ''[[Woodcock's Little Game]]'' in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 6 February, with ''[[William Tell with a Vengeance, or The Pet, the Parrot and the Pippin]]''  (Byron) and the "Transformation scene" from ''[[Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves]]''.

== Sources ==

Transcribed copy of the original published text, [[Project Gutenberg]][https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57451/57451-h/57451-h.htm] 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton

[[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. 322, 329, 365-6. 

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