Les Pattes de Mouche

Les Pattes de Mouche ("the of the fly") is a comedy in three acts by Victorien Sardou (1831-1908)[1]

The original text

Originally written and performed in 1860 and published by M. Lévy Frères in Paris in the same year. It was Sardou's first real success and would go on to see 52 editions published (in four languages) between 1860 and 1978.

Translations and adaptations

Adapted into English as A Scrap of Paper, a comedy in three acts by John Palgrave Simpson ()[], and first performed in London in 1861.

Filmed in French as Les Pattes de Mouche by Jean Grémillon in 1936[].

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed as Lucretia Borgia by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on

Sources

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

"Online Books by Victorien Sardou", The Online Books Page[2]

"Sardou, Victorien 1831-1908", WorldCat[3]

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.203-205

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