Tommy Atkins - Revision history

Satj at 03:37, 7 May 2019

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Satj: /* Tommy Atkins the play by Landeck and Shirley (1895) */

2019-05-07T03:19:49Z

Tommy Atkins the play by Landeck and Shirley (1895)

Satj: /* Tommy Atkins the play (1895) */

2019-05-07T03:19:30Z

Tommy Atkins the play (1895)

Satj: /* Tommy Atkins in performance */

2019-05-06T16:35:42Z

Tommy Atkins in performance

Satj at 16:30, 6 May 2019

2019-05-06T16:30:34Z

Satj: /* Sources */

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Sources

Satj: /* The original text */

2019-05-06T16:29:20Z

The original text

Satj at 16:25, 6 May 2019

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Satj: /* Sources */

2019-05-06T07:57:54Z

Sources

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South African performances

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		+	''New Zealand Herald'', 16 October 1915
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		+	''NZ Truth'', 7 October 1916
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		+	''[[Rand Daily Mail]]'', 10 June 1919
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		+	https://ozvta.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/variety-performers-in-radio-list-1112017.pdf
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		+	https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5391139/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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 In 2014  Peter Gill created and performed a one-man play called ''[[Meet Tommy Atkins]]'' as part of the centenary of the First World War (1914-1918).
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 In 2014  Peter Gill created and performed a one-man play called ''[[Meet Tommy Atkins]]'' as part of the centenary of the First World War (1914-1918).
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+=''Tommy Atkins'' the play by Landeck and Shirley (1895)=
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 In 1890 [[Rudyard Kipling]] wrote and published the poem ''Tommy''[http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_tommy.htm], featuring "Tommy Atkins" and intended to honour the ordinary British soldier.  It was reprinted in 1892 in Kipling's ''Barrack-Room Ballads''. (Sometimes listed as ''The Ballad of Tommy Atkins''.)
-In 1893,  Henry Hamilton (lyrics) and Samuel Potter (music) wrote the song "Private Tommy Atkins"[http://www.contemplator.com/england/atkins.html] for the musical play ''[[A Gaiety Girl]]'' ()
+In 1893,  Henry Hamilton (lyrics) and Samuel Potter (music) wrote the song "Private Tommy Atkins"[http://www.contemplator.com/england/atkins.html] for the musical play ''[[A Gaiety Girl]]''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gaiety_Girl] (by Owen Hall (book, on an outline by James T. Tanner), Harry Greenbank (lyrics) and Sidney Jones (music)).
 In 1895 a '''stage play''' called ''[[Tommy Atkins]]'' was written by Ben Landeck and Arthur Shirley. '''(See performance details below)'''

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 ==The original text==
-A romantic melodrama written by Ben Landeck (1864–1928) and Arthur Shirley, set against the backdrop of the British intervention in The Sudan in the 1880s.  First performed in London at the Pavilion Theatre on 16 September, 1895, followed by a run at the Duke of York's Theatre, from 23 December, 1895, , the play was not popular with critics, being dismissed as a preposterous piece, "an outrageous East-end melodrama..." etc.
+A romantic melodrama written by Ben Landeck (1864–1928) and Arthur Shirley (1853-1925), set against the backdrop of the British intervention in The Sudan in the 1880s.  First performed in London at the Pavilion Theatre on 16 September, 1895, followed by a run at the Duke of York's Theatre, from 23 December, 1895, , the play was not popular with critics, being dismissed as a preposterous piece, "an outrageous East-end melodrama..." etc.
 However it was later revived by  Milton Bode's Company (26 September to 1 October 1898), who described it as a "Great Military Drama" on the promotional material issued for the production..
 ==South African performances==

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-"[[Tommy Atkins]]" is a name given to a number of people and things, from its long-standing use as a name for a British Soldier (hence "Tommies") to the name of a famous mango cultivar[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Atkins_(mango)].
+"[[Tommy Atkins]]" is a name given to a number of people and things, from its long-standing use as a name for a British Soldier (hence, for example, the "Tommies" of the [[Anglo-Boer War]]) to the name of a famous mango cultivar[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Atkins_(mango)].
 = ''Tommy Atkins'' in performance =
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 ==The original text==
-A romantic melodrama set against the backdrop of the British intervention in The Sudan in the 1880s.
+A romantic melodrama written by Ben Landeck (1864–1928) and Arthur Shirley, set against the backdrop of the British intervention in The Sudan in the 1880s.  First performed in London at the Pavilion Theatre on 16 September, 1895, followed by a run at the Duke of York's Theatre, from 23 December, 1895, , the play was not popular with critics, being dismissed as a preposterous piece, "an outrageous East-end melodrama..." etc.
 However it was later revived by  Milton Bode's Company (26 September to 1 October 1898), who described it as a "Great Military Drama" on the promotional material issued for the production..
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 J.P. Wearing. 2013 (2nd revised edition). ''The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel'', Scarecrow Press: p. 277[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=nF8pAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA277&lpg=PA277&dq=Tommy+Atkins+by+Ben+Landeck+and+Arthur+Shirley&source=bl&ots=hfjYS7Tj4H&sig=ACfU3U0N17JmDx2DeJAtfTmsZ-jlqCgp2A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjL4qrAs4biAhVKxIUKHVyYBAc4ChDoATACegQIBhAB#v=onepage&q=Tommy%20Atkins%20by%20Ben%20Landeck%20and%20Arthur%20Shirley&f=false]
 https://www.westernfrontassociation.com/branches/united-kingdom/midlands-east/events/meet-tommy-atkins-a-one-man-play-by-peter-gill/

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 ==South African performances==
-: Performed as '''''[[The Sorrows of Satan]]''''' in the [[Palladium Theatre]], Johannesburg by the [[Hoffman-King Company]], with a cast including [[Hilda Attenboro]]. There is no indication which dramatized version was used.
+: Performed as '''''[[Tommy Atkins]]''''' in the [[Palladium Theatre]], Johannesburg by the [[Hoffman-King Company]], with a cast including [[Hilda Attenboro]].
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