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| − | Translated into English as ''[[A Peculiar Position]]'' by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9], first performed in London at the Olympic Theatre on 3 May 1837. Published in London by Chapman and Hall, 1837. | + | Translated into English as '''''[[A Peculiar Position]]''''' by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9], first performed in London at the Olympic Theatre on 3 May 1837. Published in London by Chapman and Hall, 1837. |
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| + | ''[[A Peculiar Position]]'' is an English translation of ''[[La Frontière de Savoie]]'' ("The border of Savoy"), a farce in one act by Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe] and J.F.A (Jean-François Alfred) Bayard (1796-1853)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Bayard]. | ||
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
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La Frontière de Savoie ("The border of Savoy") is a farce in one act by Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)[1] and J.F.A (Jean-François Alfred) Bayard (1796-1853)[2].
Contents
The original text
First performed in Paris at the Théâtre du Gymnase Dramatique[3] on 20 August 1834. (Often only attributed to Scribe alone)
Translations and adaptations
Translated into English as A Peculiar Position by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)[4], first performed in London at the Olympic Theatre on 3 May 1837. Published in London by Chapman and Hall, 1837.
A Peculiar Position is an English translation of La Frontière de Savoie ("The border of Savoy"), a farce in one act by Eugène Scribe (1791–1861)[5] and J.F.A (Jean-François Alfred) Bayard (1796-1853)[6].
Performance history in South Africa
1854: Was apparently to have been performed in English, as A Peculiar Position, on 11 July 1 by Garrison Players , as after piece to Charles the Twelfth (Planché). It seems this did not take place due to the illness of the stage manager.
1854: Probably performed some time later in July, with the addition of The Two Bonnycastles (J.M. Morton).
1854: Repeated on Friday, 18 August, now with another addition, that of The Honeymoon (Tobin).
Sources
John Gassner and Edward Quinn (eds) The Reader's Encyclopedia of World Drama, Google Books[7]
Donald Roy (ed) 1986. Plays by James Robinson Planché, Google Books[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8ne_Scribe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Bayard
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [9]: pp. 408
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