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''[[Who's Your Friend? or The Queensberry Fête]]'' is a comic drama in two acts by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9].

==The original text==


First performed at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in 1843, and published by Webster & Company in 1843. Also found as Issue 882 of Dicks' standard plays and later published by [[Samuel French]].

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==


1862: Performed as ''[[Who's Your Friend?, or The Queensbury Fête]]'' by [[Sefton Parry]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town,  as a farewell benefit for [[Mrs Parry]], with ''[[Christmas Boxes]]'' (Mayhew and Edwards) and circus acts by members of [[Franklin's Circus]].

== Sources ==

https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Who_s_Your_Friend_Or_The_Queensbury_F%C3%AAt.html?id=vGIpugEACAAJ&hl=en&output=html_text&redir_esc=y

''The Sporting Review'', edited by 'Craven' (John William Carleton). July 1843: p.291[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=xokEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA291&lpg=PA291&dq=Who's+Your+Friend,+or+The+Queensbury+F%C3%AAte+Planch%C3%A9&source=bl&ots=fo1sb7i9V1&sig=QFof9RhIx_K7dMNoze6fCvsqWtc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwis-8T0wrLfAhUIx4UKHZUwBJ0Q6AEwB3oECAAQAQ#v=onepage&q=Who's%20Your%20Friend%2C%20or%20The%20Queensbury%20F%C3%AAte%20Planch%C3%A9&f=false]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9

[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.112

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