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''[[My Awful Dad]]'' is a play by Charles Matthews ()[].

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−	1885: Performed by the [[~~Disney Roebuck~~]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, opening on March 19th. The cast ~~also~~ included [[H.C. Sidney]], [[H. Harries]], [[Constance Young]], [[Alice Norton]], and others.	+	1885: Performed by the [[Henry Harper]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, opening on March 19th. The cast included [[Disney Roebuck]], [[H.C. Sidney]], [[H. Harries]], [[Constance Young]], [[Alice Norton]], and others.

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 ==The original text==
+Usually listed as a comedy in two acts, it appears to have been first performed by Matthews in 1856,either   in London or in New York. However, an undated published text[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435054493044&view=1up&seq=3] by Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, has it as a comedy in '''three''' acts.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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-''[[My Awful Dad]]'' is a comedy in two acts by Charles Matthews (Charles James Matthews, 1803–1878)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mathews,_Charles_James_(DNB00)].
+''[[My Awful Dad]]'' is a comedy by Charles Matthews (Charles James Matthews, 1803–1878)[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Mathews,_Charles_James_(DNB00)].
 ==The original text==
-It appears to have been first performed by Matthews at the , London, in 1856.
+Usually listed as a comedy in two acts, it appears to have been first performed by Matthews at the , London, in 1856. However, an undated published text[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435054493044&view=1up&seq=3] by  Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, has it as a comedy in '''three''' acts.
 ==Translations and adaptations==

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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==
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		+	Facsimile version of the three-act American text, [[Hathi Trust Digital Library]][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435054493044&view=1up&seq=3]
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		+	https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100593017

	http://bulkimport.lyrtech.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/5668		http://bulkimport.lyrtech.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/5668

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−	It appears to have been first performed by Matthews at the , London, in 1856.	+	It appears to have been first performed by Matthews at the , London, in 1856.
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		+	Published in New York by Dick & Fitzgerald, as a comedy in three acts.

	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==

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−	1885: Performed by the [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, opening on March 19th. The cast also included [[H.C Sidney]], [[H. Harries]], [[Constance Young]], [[Alice Norton]], and others.	+	1885: Performed by the [[Disney Roebuck]] and his company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, opening on March 19th. The cast also included [[H.C. Sidney]], [[H. Harries]], [[Constance Young]], [[Alice Norton]], and others.

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==

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	''[[My Awful Dad]]'' is a play by Charles Matthews ()[].		''[[My Awful Dad]]'' is a play by Charles Matthews ()[].
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		+	==The original text==
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		+	==Translations and adaptations==
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		+	== 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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		+	== Sources ==
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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.)
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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.356, 380
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