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Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy is a "petite comedy" in two acts by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890) and [1], based on L'Homme Blasé by F.A. Duvert and Augustin-Théodore de Lauzanne de Vauxroussel.
Also referred to simply as Used Up.
Contents
The original French version
L'Homme Blasé is a "comédie-vaudeville" by F.A. Duvert and Augustin-Théodore de Lauzanne de Vauxroussel, first performed in Paris at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris on 18 November 1843, and published by Lelong, 1843.
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English and adapted as a is a "petite comedy" in two acts by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)[2].
The English version was originally performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket by Charles Mathews, Tuesday, February 6th, 1844.
Originally published in London in Dicks' Standard Plays, 1844 as a work by Dion Boucicault, but apparently Charles Mathews had influenced the play during production, and also helped with the translation and the title, and later claimed part authorship. Indeed a later version (London & New York: S. French & Son, n.d.[3] ) states emphatically: "Rather, Adapted by D. Bourcicault [sic] and Charles J. Mathews from L'Homme Blasé of F.A. Duvert and A.T. de Lauzanne de Vauxroussel."
Performance history in South Africa
1855: Performed on Wednesday 13 June in a Drawing Room Theatre which he had constructed in the Commercial Rooms in Cape Town. It was Sefton Parry's first production at Cape Town, in which he and his wife played the leads, helped by members of the Garrison Players. Performed under the full title of Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy, it was accompanied by a musical interlude and the musical farce Family Jars (Lunn) as afterpiece.
1855: Repeated for a benefit performance announced for J.R. Taylor, along with Monsieur Jacques (Barnett) (Originally announced for Monday 9 July , but postponed to make way for the patriotic Fund production. Possibly done 14 July.)
Sources
Facsimile version of the text of L'homme Blasé, Google E-Book[4]
Peter Thompson: Introduction to Plays by Dion Boucicault[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dion_Boucicault
Google Books "Used Up" (London & New York: S. French & Son, n.d.)[6]
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [7]: pp. 428, 431.
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