Difference between revisions of "Whitebait at Greenwich"
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
+ | 1859: Performed by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]] and other amateurs, as part of the [[Great Volunteers Parade]] in Durbanville, Cape Town, on 6 October, with ''[[Whitebait at Greenwich]]'' (Morton). | ||
− | 1877: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 6 November, with ''[[The Beggar's Petition, or A Father's Love and A Mother's Care]]'' (Pitt). | + | 1877: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by [[Disney Roebuck]] and company on 6 November, with ''[[The Beggar's Petition, or A Father's Love and A Mother's Care]]'' (Pitt). |
== Sources == | == Sources == |
Revision as of 04:38, 6 June 2018
Whitebait at Greenwich is farce in one act by John Maddison Morton (1811-1891)[1]
In America it was apparently also performed and published under the title The Two Buzzards, or Whitebait at Greenwich.
Contents
The original text
First Performed at the Royal Adelphi Theatre, London, on Monday, November 13th, 1853.
Published in London as Lacy's Acting Edition no. 175 in the 1853, later also by Samuel French in 1860.
Later also published in America as The Two Buzzards, or Whitebait at Greenwich in Spencer's Boston Theatre 1856), in Sergel's Acting Drama in 1888 and again in Boston by W.H. Baker & Co., c1889.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed by the Cape Town Dramatic Club and other amateurs, as part of the Great Volunteers Parade in Durbanville, Cape Town, on 6 October, with Whitebait at Greenwich (Morton).
1877: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck and company on 6 November, with The Beggar's Petition, or A Father's Love and A Mother's Care (Pitt).
Sources
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Whitebait_at_Greenwich.html?id=HU9hvgAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/3665016
https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/6297567
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 362,
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