Difference between revisions of "The Profligate"

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==The original text==
 
==The original text==
  
First performed at the Comedy Theatre, London, 18 December, 1900 and published in London and New York by [[Samuel French]] in 1900.
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1892: Performed as ''[[Jane]]'' in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the visiting [[Emilie Bevan Comedy Company]] as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.
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1892: Performed in the [[Vaudeville Theatre]], Cape Town, by the visiting [[Emilie Bevan Comedy Company]] as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
  
Facsimile version of the 1900 text, [[The Internet Archive]][https://archive.org/details/janeafarceinthr00lestgoog/page/n4]
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Nicholls_(comedian)
 
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lestocq
 
  
 
[[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 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
[[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 1932. (Reprinted in [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)

Revision as of 06:33, 28 October 2019

The Profligate is a play in four acts by Arthur Wing Pinero ()[].

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1892: Performed in the Vaudeville Theatre, Cape Town, by the visiting Emilie Bevan Comedy Company as part of a three-and-a-half month season of 20 plays which began on 8 August.

Sources

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 1932. (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: pp.394-5

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