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 [[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 1932. (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]]: pp.203-205
+[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p. 420.
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	Roger Ball. ''Lest we forget – A Life of Pleasure? The machine gun, colonial massacres and the Victorian theatre'', on the website of the Bristol Radical History Group[https://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/lest-we-forget-a-life-of-pleasure/] Accessed on 2 July, 2020.		Roger Ball. ''Lest we forget – A Life of Pleasure? The machine gun, colonial massacres and the Victorian theatre'', on the website of the Bristol Radical History Group[https://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/lest-we-forget-a-life-of-pleasure/] Accessed on 2 July, 2020.
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		+	J.P. Wearing. 2013. ''The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. (Second, revised edition, p. 184). Scarecrow Press, Google E-book.[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=nF8pAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA184&lpg=PA184&dq=A+Life+of+Pleasure+by+Hnery+Pettitt+and+Augustus+Harris&source=bl&ots=hfnUXbLg0G&sig=ACfU3U3DTFU7Khs1owIAcJrOEIoNVh3s8A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjH7L3Ezq3qAhVRr3EKHfWWCQ0Q6AEwBnoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=A%20Life%20of%20Pleasure%20by%20Hnery%20Pettitt%20and%20Augustus%20Harris&f=false]

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 A Victorian melodrama about a woman who falls victim to a heartless upper-class seducer and is finally rescued by her father. According to Roger Ball's article, based on contemporary records[https://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/lest-we-forget-a-life-of-pleasure/], the play was much admired at the time for its  "sensational" penultimate act, which is set in Burma and features what all kinds of military activity, such as the bustle and humour of a camp, British forces marching through the jungle, horseman jumping across a chasm, and a  pontoon train crosses a bridge built on stage for the troops and their baggage to cross, and finally the pursuit in which machine guns blaze and the stage ends up full of dead Burmese. (In the Bristol production these scenes were undertaken to the amazement of audiences by members of the 2nd Tower Hamlets Volunteers.)
-First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 and then transferred to the Princess Theatre on 11 December, to run until February 1894. The play was also performed at the Princes Theatre, Bristol in December of
+First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 - and running for four hours - and then transferred to the Princess Theatre on 11 December, to play there until February 1894. The play was also performed at the Princes Theatre, Bristol, in December of 1893.
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 A Victorian melodrama about a woman who falls victim to a heartless upper-class seducer and is finally rescued by her father. According to Roger Ball's article, based on contemporary records[https://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/lest-we-forget-a-life-of-pleasure/], the play was much admired at the time for its  "sensational" penultimate act, which is set in Burma and features what all kinds of military activity, such as the bustle and humour of a camp, British forces marching through the jungle, horseman jumping across a chasm, and a  pontoon train crosses a bridge built on stage for the troops and their baggage to cross, and finally the pursuit in which machine guns blaze and the stage ends up full of dead Burmese. (In the Bristol production these scenes were undertaken to the amazement of audiences by members of the 2nd Tower Hamlets Volunteers.)
-First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 and then transferred to the  Princes Theatre, Bristol in December of that year, where it ran until February 1894.
+First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 and then transferred to the Princess Theatre on 11 December, to run until February 1894. The play was also performed at the Princes Theatre, Bristol in December of
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	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==
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		+	1904: Produced by [[Leonard Rayne]] and his company as part of a season of plays he put on in the [[Opera House]], Cape Town, between April and June.

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	''[[A Life of Pleasure]]'' is a play by by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Harris]		''[[A Life of Pleasure]]'' is a play by by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Harris]
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		+	Sometimes referred to simply as '''''[[Life of Pleasure]]'''''

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 ==The original text==
-A Victorian melodrama about a woman who falls victim to a heartless upper-class seducer and is finally rescued by her father. According to Roger Ball's article based on contemporary records[https://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/lest-we-forget-a-life-of-pleasure/], the play was much admired at the time for its  "sensational" penultimate act, which is set in Burma and features what all kinds of military activity, such as the bustle and humour of a camp, British forces marching through the jungle, horseman jumping across a chasm, and a  pontoon train crosses a bridge built on stage for the troops and their baggage to cross, and finally the pursuit in which machine guns blaze and the stage ends up full of dead Burmese. (In Bristol these scenes were undertaken to the amazement of audiences by members of the 2nd Tower Hamlets Volunteers.)
+A Victorian melodrama about a woman who falls victim to a heartless upper-class seducer and is finally rescued by her father. According to Roger Ball's article, based on contemporary records[https://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/lest-we-forget-a-life-of-pleasure/], the play was much admired at the time for its  "sensational" penultimate act, which is set in Burma and features what all kinds of military activity, such as the bustle and humour of a camp, British forces marching through the jungle, horseman jumping across a chasm, and a  pontoon train crosses a bridge built on stage for the troops and their baggage to cross, and finally the pursuit in which machine guns blaze and the stage ends up full of dead Burmese. (In the Bristol production these scenes were undertaken to the amazement of audiences by members of the 2nd Tower Hamlets Volunteers.)
 First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 and then transferred to the  Princes Theatre, Bristol in December of that year, where it ran until February 1894.

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-''[[ A Life of Pleasure]]'' is a play by by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Harris]
+''[[A Life of Pleasure]]'' is a play by by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)] and Augustus Henry Glossop Harris (1852-1896)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Harris]
 ==The original text==
-First produced at the Drury Lane Theatre, London, on 21 September 1893 and then transferred to the Princess's Theatre where it ran until February 1894.
+A Victorian melodrama about a woman who falls victim to a heartless upper-class seducer and is finally rescued by her father. According to Roger Ball's article based on contemporary records[], the play was much admired at the time for its  "sensational" penultimate act, which is set in Burma and features what all kinds of military activity, such as the bustle and humour of a camp, British forces marching through the jungle, horseman jumping across a chasm, and a  pontoon train crosses a bridge built on stage for the troops and their baggage to cross, and finally the pursuit in which machine guns blaze and the stage ends up full of dead Burmese. (In Bristol these scenes were undertaken to the amazement of audiences by members of the 2nd Tower Hamlets Volunteers.)
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+Roger Ball. ''Lest we forget – A Life of Pleasure? The machine gun, colonial massacres and the Victorian theatre'', on the website of the Bristol Radical History Group[https://www.brh.org.uk/site/articles/lest-we-forget-a-life-of-pleasure/] Accessed on 2 July, 2020.
 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Pettitt,_Henry_(DNB00)

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	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==
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−	~~1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on~~

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