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''[[No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi]]'' is a farce in one act by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone].

Also known as ''[[No. 23, John Street, Adelphi]]''; ''[[No. 23 John Street, Adelphi]]''; ''[[John Street, Adelphi]]''; and ''[[A Card! 23 John Street, Adelphi]]''.


== The original text ==
 
First performed as ''[[A Card! 23 John Street, Adelphi]]'' on  21 November 1826 in the Adelphi Theatre, London, and published as ''[[No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi]]'' in Dicks' standard plays ; no. 842 and by John Cumberland. (Cumberland's Minor Theatre, 1825)

== South African productions ==

1847: Performed on 2 June by the [[Garrison Players|90th Light Infantry]] as ''[[No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi]]'' in the [[Amateur Theatre]], Cape Town, with the farce ''[[The Red Rover,  or The Mutiny of the Dolphin]]'' (Fitzball)

1847: Performed for the benefit of the Regimental School on 7 July by the [[Garrison Players|90th Light Infantry]] as ''[[No. 23, John-Street, Adelphi]]''  in the [[Amateur Theatre]], Cape Town, with ''[[The Wreck Ashore]]'' (Buckstone) and "A Serio-Comic Burlesque on the Tent Scene" in ''[[Richard III]]'' (Shakespeare)

== Sources ==


http://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/john-street-adelphi-a-farce-in-two-acts/author/buckstone-john-baldwin/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone

Allardyce Nicoll. 1930. A History of Early Ninteenth Century Drama 1800-1850 Vol II Cambridge University Press[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=gnc3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA263&lpg=PA263&dq=23,+John+Street,+Adelphi+Bucksotne&source=bl&ots=kcjNRrD62y&sig=7g4J0Ql9oXPoGKwGUMm_n9db2mE&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjd08WBvY_KAhXHiRoKHe3kA8kQ6AEIODAF#v=onepage&q=23%2C%20John%20Street%2C%20Adelphi%20Bucksotne&f=false]

James Fenimore Cooper, ''The Red Rover: A Tale''  (edited by Thomas Philbrick and Marianne Philbrick) SUNY Press, 1991[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=Rk5JLP1UcM8C&pg=PR29&lpg=PR29&dq=The+Red+Rover+Fitzball&source=bl&ots=k6c_PLx3No&sig=qOITC6V--tooNhazhKt7COiwdjM&hl=af&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjg7dTyrI_KAhUD7BQKHTI7AssQ6AEIGTAA#v=onepage&q=The%20Red%20Rover%20Fitzball&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. 396

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