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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
Possibly a tableau-like performance based on an illustrated article called “Indians of the Far West”, published in  The Illustrated London News, Vol. XXXII, No. 913 on Saturday, April 17,  1858, pp. 400-401.
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Possibly a tableau-like performance based on something like the illustrated article called “Indians of the Far West”, published in  The Illustrated London News, Vol. XXXII, No. 913 on Saturday, April 17,  1858, pp. 400-401.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 06:05, 7 August 2018

The Indians of the Far West was possibly a so-called Wild West Show[1], or a set of tableaux[2], by an unknown author.

The original text

Possibly a tableau-like performance based on something like the illustrated article called “Indians of the Far West”, published in The Illustrated London News, Vol. XXXII, No. 913 on Saturday, April 17, 1858, pp. 400-401.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1862: A scene from The Indians of the Far West performed in the Eastern Cape village of Keiskama Hoek's Garrison Theatre by the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot on June 3, with a cast that included J. F. Gay (Waconosta, Chief of the Mohicans) and J. Davies (Mardoc). Also performed was as The Irish Tutor (Butler), followed by a scene from The Castle Spectre (Lewis). (For more on contemporary responses to the performances, see the entry on the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot)

Sources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_West_shows

https://dramaresource.com/tableaux/

Transcription of the 1858 ILN article, posted on the Stone Quarries and Beyond web site by Peggy B. Perazzo (Email: pbperazzo@comcast.net) on February 2013[3]. Accessed: 7 August, 2018.

North Lincoln Sphinx Vol 1, No 13, July 23, 1862. (Keiskama Hoek)

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