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''[[Le Pèlerin Blanc, ou Les Orphelins du Hameau]]'' ("The White Pilgrim, or the Children of the Village")  is a melodrama in two 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 to great success in  the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, April 1801 and published in Paris in the same year.   

== Translations and adaptations ==

Translated into English as '''''[[The Wandering Boys, or The Castle of Olival]]'''''  by John Kerr (fl. 1814-1834). 

Also referred to simply as ''[[The Wandering Boys]]'' on occasion.

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1818: Performed simply as ''[[The Wandering Boys]]'' in the [[African Theatre]] by the [[Gentlemen Amateurs]] and [[Mr Cooke]] and his company, on 25 July, with as afterpiece ''[[The Mock Doctor]]'' (Fielding)

1818: Performed as ''[[The Wandering Boys]]'' in the [[African Theatre]] by the [[Gentlemen Amateurs]] and [[Mr Cooke]] and his company, on 26 September 1818, with as afterpiece ''[[The Miller and his Men]]'' (Pocock). Also included two songs sung by [[Mr Pitt]]  and "The Bird Duet" ( from Dibdin's  comic opera  ''[[The Cabinet]]'', with music by J. Braham), sung by [[Mr Cooke]] and [[Mrs Cooke]].   This was a [[Benefit Performance]] for [[Mrs Cooke]], one of the players. 

1845: Performed under its full title in the [[Roeland Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 17 July by [[All the World's a Stage]], with ''[[The Queer Subject]]'' (Coyne) as afterpiece.

== Sources ==

Allardyce Nicoll ''A History of Early Nineteenth Centry Drama Volume'' II 1800-1850 p. 6[http://books.google.co.za/books?id=D2s3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=Pixerecourt's+The+Wandering+Boys&source=bl&ots=Rm_dR68mmU&sig=uRLJJPGK-QT7yRorJjQbg2VJXTs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=I6uBUrK3FIjwhQe1xIGgBA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Pixerecourt's%20The%20Wandering%20Boys&f=false]

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 154-5, 413-4  


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