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''[[At Home]]'' is the general title found for the public lectures given by [[Mark Twain]] (1835–1910)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain] on his 1896 visit to South Africa. 

Probably billed as ''[[Mark Twain At Home]]'' or ''[[At Home with Mark Twain]]'' on occasion. 



==The original text==

==Translations and adaptations==

The most widely known adapted version of this series of talks is most probably Hal Holbrook's ''[[Mark Twain Tonight!]]''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain_Tonight!], though there have numerous similar programmes over the years by various actors. 

In South Africa [[Percy Sieff]] developed a similar programme called ''[[Sincerely Yours, Mark Twain]]'', which became a long-term vehicle for Sieff,  who took this one-man show on Mark Twain across the globe, right into the late 1990s.

A play called ''[[One for the Road to Damaskus]]''[https://www.litnet.co.za/litnet-spens-n-loopsopie-op-die-pad-na-damaskus/] by [[Temple Hauptfleisch]] (1945-) is based on a (fictional) chance meeting that takes place between Twain and the young South African writer [[C.J. Langenhoven]], on the evening of Twain's performance in Cape Town, and contains adapted excerpts from Twain's talks.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1896: Twain appeared in his ''[[At Home]]'' programme in the [[Theatre Royal]], Durban (); Caledonian Hall, Pretoria (May); [[Standard Theatre]], Johannesburg (May); the [[Bloemfontein City Hall]] (May?);  the [[Queenstown Town Hall]] (June); the [[Mutual Hall]] on Market Square, East London (June); [[King William’s Town Theatre]] (June); the [[Albany Drill Hall]], Grahamstown (June); the [[Port Elizabeth City Hall]] (June); the [[Opera House]], Cape Town (3 performances, July); the [[Town Hall]] of the suburb of Claremont, Cape Town (3 performances, July);

== 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 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]]: p.404

[[Jill Fletcher]]. 1994. ''The Story of Theatre in South Africa: A Guide to its History from 1780-1930''. Cape Town: Vlaeberg: p.120

Robert Cooper. 2000. ''Around the World with Mark Twain''. Arcade Publishing

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