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''[[The Man in the Street]]'' is a short play by L.N. Parker ()[].  
 
''[[The Man in the Street]]'' is a short play by L.N. Parker ()[].  
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==The original text==
  
 
The play was specifically written for the young actor [[James Welch]], and first performed at the Avenue Theatre in London in 1898, and becoming a staple part of Welch's initial repertoire.
 
The play was specifically written for the young actor [[James Welch]], and first performed at the Avenue Theatre in London in 1898, and becoming a staple part of Welch's initial repertoire.
==The original text==
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==
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1866: Performed as ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on
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== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Revision as of 09:17, 10 May 2020

The Man in the Street is a short play by L.N. Parker ()[].

The original text

The play was specifically written for the young actor James Welch, and first performed at the Avenue Theatre in London in 1898, and becoming a staple part of Welch's initial repertoire.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

Sources

"Theatrical Gossip" in Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality (Volume 23, August 24, 1898)[1]

James Woodfield. 1984. English Theatre in Transition, 1881-1914, Rowman & Littlefield: p.47[2]

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, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 412-3, 417-8

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