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First performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi in London ... /  
 
First performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi in London ... /  
  
Published in Webster's acting national drama, No. 33, in 1838. Illustrated by Pierce Egan the younger.
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Published in London by J. Dicks, Chapman and Hall, and in Webster's acting national drama, No. 33, in 1838.
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:53, 24 May 2019

The Dancing Barber is a farce in one act by Charles Selby (1802?-1863)[].

The original text

First performed at the Theatre Royal, Adelphi in London ... /

Published in London by J. Dicks, Chapman and Hall, and in Webster's acting national drama, No. 33, in 1838.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1858: Performed in the Cape Town Theatre by Sefton Parry and his company on 23 March, with The Lady of Lyons (Bulwer-Lytton) and Macbeth (an "entirely new Extravaganza" by Talfourd).

Sources

https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/22505322?q&versionId=27237518

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.

William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.


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