The Paper Chase - Revision history

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''[[ The Paper Chase]]'' is a play by C. Thomas ()[]

==The original text==

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on

== Sources ==

[[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.387-8

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	First performed at Toole's Theatre, London, on 9 July, 1888, with [[Lionel Brough]] as "James Busby" and published by [[Samuel French]]		First performed at Toole's Theatre, London, on 9 July, 1888, with [[Lionel Brough]] as "James Busby" and published by [[Samuel French]]
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	==Translations and adaptations==		==Translations and adaptations==

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−	''[[ The Paper Chase]]'' is a farcical comedy in three acts by Charles Thomas ()[]	+	''[[ The Paper Chase]]'' is a farcical comedy in three acts by Charles Thomas (fl 1880s)

	''Not to be confused with '''[[The Paper Chase]]''', a stage adaptation by Joseph Robinette of the 1971 novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr.''		''Not to be confused with '''[[The Paper Chase]]''', a stage adaptation by Joseph Robinette of the 1971 novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr.''

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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
-: Performed by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, opening on 26 August, with the visiting comedian [[Lionel Brough]] again playing "James Busby". The production was poorly attended, as were most of that season by Searelle in the unsuitable [[Exhibition Theatre]].
+: Presented by [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, opening on 26 August, with the visiting comedian [[Lionel Brough]] again playing "James Busby". The production was poorly attended, as were most of that season by Searelle in the unsuitable [[Exhibition Theatre]].
 == Sources ==

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	== Sources ==		== Sources ==
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		+	Facsimile version of the [[Samuel French]] text, Tufts Digital Library[http://repository01.lib.tufts.edu/bookreader/tufts:16046#page/7/mode/2up]

	[[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.)		[[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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+''[[ The Paper Chase]]'' is a farcical comedy in three acts by Charles Thomas ()[]
 ''Not to be confused with '''[[The Paper Chase]]''', a stage adaptation by Joseph Robinette of the 1971 novel by John Jay Osborn, Jr.''
 ==The original text==
 ==Translations and adaptations==
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 == Performance history in South Africa ==
+: Performed by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, opening on 26 August, with the visiting comedian [[Lionel Brough]] again playing "James Busby". The production was poorly attended, as were most of that season by Searelle in the unsuitable [[Exhibition Theatre]].
 == Sources ==

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−	1889: Performed by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, opening on 26 August, with the visiting celebrity comedian [[Lionel Brough]] as "James Busby".	+	1889: Performed by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, opening on 26 August, with the visiting celebrity comedian [[Lionel Brough]] as "James Busby". The production was poorly attended, as were most of that season by Searelle in the unsuitable [[Exhibition Theatre]].

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−	1889: Performed ~~as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]''~~ by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, on 26 August, with the visiting celebrity [[Lionel Brough]] as "James Busby"	+	1889: Performed by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, opening on 26 August, with the visiting celebrity comedian [[Lionel Brough]] as "James Busby".

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−	~~1866~~: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[~~Le Roy-Duret Company~~]] in the [[~~Harrington Street~~ Theatre]], Cape Town, on	+	1889: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Luscombe Searelle]] and his company in the [[Exhibition Theatre]], Cape Town, on 26 August, with the visiting celebrity [[Lionel Brough]] as "James Busby"

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