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 : Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by the visiting [[Bijou Troupe]] in the [[Cape Town Institute]] building on 20 March, with ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' (Buckstone).
-: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 6 July, with ''[[Frou-Frou]]'' (Mailhoc and Halévy).
+: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company and featuring [[The Paultons]], in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 6 July, with ''[[Frou-Frou]]'' (Mailhoc and Halévy).
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 : Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by the visiting [[Bijou Troupe]] in the [[Cape Town Institute]] building on 20 March, with ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' (Buckstone).
-: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 6 July, with ''[[Frou-Frou]]'' ().
+: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 6 July, with ''[[Frou-Frou]]'' (Mailhoc and Halévy).
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 : Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by the visiting [[Bijou Troupe]] in the [[Cape Town Institute]] building on 20 March, with ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' (Buckstone).
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+: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Bijou Theatre]], Cape Town, on 6 July, with ''[[Frou-Frou]]'' ().
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-: Performed as ''[[Why Don't She Marry?]]''
+: Performed as as ''[[Why don't She Marry?]]'' for the opening production in [[Sefton Parry]]'s [[Harrington Street Theatre|first wooden theatre]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town,  on 14 September (along with Morton's two plays ''[[A Kiss in the Dark]]'' and ''[[A Thumping Legacy]]'').
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+: Performed as ''[[Le Chalet Suisse]]'', uncredited and billed as the "Musical Comedietta", it was performed by [[Sefton Parry]] and company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 27 June, along with ''[[London Assurance]]'' (Boucicault). It is most probably the work by Scribe et al. (The title is misspelled by Bosman as "[[Le Chalet Swisse]]" in the text, but correctly as "Le Chalet Suisse" in the index to his 1980 history.)
 : Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] on 25 September as part of their "Grand Re-opening Night" in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]],  Cape Town, with ''[[Good for Nothing]]'' (Buckstone) , ''[[Delicate Ground]]'' (Dance).

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−	1857: Performed as as ''[[Why don't She Marry?]]'' for the opening production in [[Sefton Parry]]'s [[Harrington Street Theatre\|first wooden theatre]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 14 September (along with Morton's two plays ''[[A Kiss in the Dark]]'' and ''[[A Thumping Legacy]]'').
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−	1861: A play called ''[[Le Chalet Suisse]]'' , uncredited and billed as the "Musical Comedietta", was performed by [[Sefton Parry]] and company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 27 June, along with ''[[London Assurance]]'' (Boucicault). It is most probably the work by Scribe et al. (The title is misspelled by Bosman as "[[Le Chalet Swisse]]" in the text, but correctly as "Le Chalet Suisse" in the index to his 1980 history.)

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	1867: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] on 25 September as part of their "Grand Re-opening Night" in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, with ''[[Good for Nothing]]'' (Buckstone) , ''[[Delicate Ground]]'' (Dance).		1867: Performed as ''[[The Swiss Cottage]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] on 25 September as part of their "Grand Re-opening Night" in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, with ''[[Good for Nothing]]'' (Buckstone) , ''[[Delicate Ground]]'' (Dance).

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 https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Seguin,_Arthur_Edward_Shelden_(DNB00)
-[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 57, 59, 61, 98, 230, 236, 254,268, 325, 331.
+[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp. 57, 59, 61, 98, 230, 236, 254, 268, 325, 331.
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==
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−	~~http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Buckstone%2C%20John%20Baldwin%2C%201802%2D1879~~
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−	~~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone~~
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−	~~Facsimile version of the Samuel French text of ''[[A Rough Diamond]]'' (nd), ''The Digital Archive''[https://archive.org/details/roughdiamondcomi00buckuoft]~~
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−	~~Facsimile version of the Samuel French text of ''[[The Rough Diamond]]'' (1850), ''The Digital Archive''[https://archive.org/details/roughdiamondfarc00buck]~~
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−	~~[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: pp 230, 253-4.~~

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 ==Translations and adaptations==
 Adapted into English by Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Haynes_Bayly] as '''''[[The Swiss Chalet, or Why don't she Marry?]]''''', with music by Arthur Edward Shelden Seguin (1809-1852)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Seguin,_Arthur_Edward_Shelden_(DNB00)].
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 ''[[The Swiss Chalet, or Why don't she Marry?]]'' was first performed at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, followed by performances at various American theatres. The text was published as Volume 405 of Dicks' standard plays,  Volume 1 of Lacy's acting edition and in Samuel French's American Drama (no LXXIX), 1860 and by [[Thomas Hailes Lacy]], London, 1866.
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