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| − | ''[[We Fly by Night, or Long Stories]]'' is a "Musical Entertainment in Two Acts" by "Arthur Griffinhoof", the pseudonym of George Colman Jr (1762-1836)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Colman_the_Younger].
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| − | (Also referred to simply as '''''[[We Fly by Night]]'''''.)
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| − | == The original text ==
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| − | Colman's entertainment is an adaptation from the three act French play, '''''[[Le Conteur, ou Les Deux Postes]]''''' by Louis-Benoît Picard (1769-1828)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis-Beno%C3%AEt_Picard], which was first performed at the Théâtre de la République in Paris in 1794 and published by Maradan in 1794 or 1795.
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| − | ''[[We Fly by Night, or Long Stories]]'' was first performed at the Theatre-Royal, Covent-Garden on January 28, 1806, with music by Michael Kelly, and published by T. Woodfall and George Dobbin & Murphy, in the same year. Also Published by D. Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakspeare-Gallery, New York in 1815.
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| − | == Performance history in South Africa ==
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| − | 1826: Performed in Cape Town on 20 September as ''[[We Fly by Night]]'' by the [[Garrison Players|Garrison Amateur Company]] in [[The African Theatre|The Cape Town Theatre]], with ''[[A Cure for the Heartache]]'' (Morton). Two quite comprehensive reviews of the production appeared in the ''[[The Commercial Advertiser]]'' and the ''[[South African Chronicle and Mercantile Advertiser]]'' on 26 September (though, interestingly, the names of performers are not mentioned in either, only the names of characters.)
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| − | ==Translations and adaptations==
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| − | Facsimile Version of the French text, from the Marandet Collection in the Warwick Digital Collections[http://contentdm.warwick.ac.uk/cdm/ref/collection/Revolution/id/14972]
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| − | National Library of Australia website[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3729497]
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| − | http://godwindiary.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/dramatists/col01.html#col01-bio.
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| − | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Colman_the_Younger
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| − | http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stories-Musical-Griffinhoof-composed-selected/dp/B0000CY4FE
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| − | http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Songs_Choruses_c_in_We_Fly_by_Night_Or_L.html?id=agxLHAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
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| − | http://wild.worldcat.org/title/we-fly-by-night-or-long-stories-a-musical-entertainment-in-two-acts/oclc/15439647?page=citation
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| − | https://library.villanova.edu/Find/Record/969202
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| − | [[F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855''. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 189-190,
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