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''[[La Femme à Deux Maris]]'' ("The Wife With Two Husbands") is a   tragedy in 3 acts  by René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Charles_Guilbert_de_Pix%C3%A9r%C3%A9court]  (1773 – 1844). 


== The original text ==

First performed at the  Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique on February 16, 1802 and published as a "mélo-drame en trois actes, en prose et à spectacle" in Paris in 1802.

==Translations and adaptations==


Translated into [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Vrouw met Twee Mannen]]'' by C. A. van Ray, published by Van Kesteren, 1803.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1825: Performed in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Vrouw met Twee Mannen]]'' in Cape Town by [[C.E. Boniface]]'s society, [[Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense]], on 20 August, with [[C.E. Boniface]]'s satire ''[[Limaçon de Dichter]]''.

1825: Performed  in [[Dutch]] as ''[[De Vrouw met Twee Mannen]]'' in Cape Town by [[Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense]] on 15 October, with ''[[The Liar]]'' (Foote), and ending with a large scale ballet (a "Groot Finaal" or "Grand Finale") by the company. The cast for this play consisted of Messrs [[D. Disant]], [[H. Roselt]], [[C.E. Boniface]], [[M.C. Wolff]], [[F. Waldek]], [[H. Meurant]], [[W. Brandt]] and [[P. Biel]]  and Misses [[C. Roselt]] and [[L. Meurant]], with additional young dancers , including  Messrs [[J.M. Hancke]], [[H Russouw]], [[P. Theunissen]], [[J. Rouvière]], [[H. de Wet]], [[L. Rouvière]], [[A. Tromp]], and Misses [[J.C. Geyer]], [[S. Rouvière]], [[C. Brink]], [[A. Siegruhn]], [[J. de Jongh]], [[E.A. Geyer]] and [[A. Hancke]].

== Sources ==

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Charles_Guilbert_de_Pix%C3%A9r%C3%A9court

http://www.worldcat.org/title/vrouw-met-twee-mannen-tooneelspel/oclc/63802825

Facsimile of 1802 French text, Google eBook[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=3SBaAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false]

[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp. 284-5, 294

Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

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