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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1860: Produced by [[Sefton Parry]] on 1 March in the [[The Cape Town Theatre]] in Harrington Street as ''[[Jane Lomax]]'', with ''[[An Alarming Sacrifice]]'' () and ''La Yolta Arragonaise'' (a dance by [[Lizzie Powell]]) as interlude.  
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1860: Produced by [[Sefton Parry]] on 1 March in the [[The Cape Town Theatre]] in Harrington Street as ''[[Jane Lomax]]'', with ''[[An Alarming Sacrifice]]'' (Buckstone) and ''La Yolta Arragonaise'' (a dance by [[Lizzie Powell]]) as interlude.  
  
  

Revision as of 16:55, 27 August 2017

Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Curse is melodrama by Edward Stirling

Also found, in some productions and sources as Jane Lomax, or The Mother's Crime or Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Crime or simply referred to as Jane Lomax.

The original text

Based on Jane Lomax, or A Mother's Crime, the sensational 1838 novel by Horace Smith, it was first performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London in 1838.


Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1860: Produced by Sefton Parry on 1 March in the The Cape Town Theatre in Harrington Street as Jane Lomax, with An Alarming Sacrifice (Buckstone) and La Yolta Arragonaise (a dance by Lizzie Powell) as interlude.


Sources

Facsimile version of the novel, Google E-book[1]

http://www.victorianweb.org/mt/adaptations/stirling.html


F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.


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