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Revision as of 06:08, 11 May 2019
One of Our Girls is a four-act comedy by Bronson Howard (1842-1908)[1]
Also known as Cousin Kate.
Contents
The original text
Originally written and performed as One of Our Girls at the Lyceum Theatre, London on 10 November, 1885, later performed as Cousin Kate in Newcastle on 26 August, 1889. Published privately as One of Our Girls in 1887 and in the collection in The Banker's Daughter and Other Plays in 1941.
Not to be confused with Howard's last play, Kate, a "Comedy in Four Acts", published by Harper and Brothers in 1906.
Translations and adaptations
Filmed and released in 1914 as One of Our Girls by Famous Players Film Company, directed by Thomas N. Heffron with a script Eve Unsell (based on the play).
Performance history in South Africa
1904: Performed as Cousin Kate in the Opera House, Cape Town, by the James Welch company,
1919: Performed as Cousin Kate by a touring company, with a cast that included Hilda Attenboro. Possibly the Marie Tempest company.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronson_Howard
Facsimile version of the published text of One of Our Girls, HathiTrust Digital Library[2]
Lewis Leary. 1980. American Literature to 1900, Macmillan International Higher Education: p.181 [3]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004433/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_6
D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: p. 417
Rand Daily Mail, 10 June 1919
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