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The Octoroon or "Life in Louisiana", by Dion Boucicault. A melodrama about a half-caste.

Written in 1859, it was first??*

1867: Performed by "Le Roy's Original Company" in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town on 11 February, with An April Fool (Halliday and Brough).

1876: Produced in South Africa by Disney Roebuck on May 6, 1876, as the opening production of his Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town.

World Drama, by Allardyce Nicoll.

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.221

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