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Revision as of 05:41, 11 June 2020
The Ladies' Club is a burletta in two acts by Mark Lemon (1809-1870)[1]
In some sources William Cullenford is named as co-author.
Contents
The original text
A parody on the "Woman's Rights" movement,
Published in London by J. Pattie, in Pattie's Universal Stage (Vol 1, no. 9), 1840 and by T.H. Lacy, 1850 (Lacy's acting edition of plays, vol. 13, no. 189).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1867: Performed by Mrs Duret and the female actresses of the company by the Le Roy-Duret Company company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 10 October, with Crossing the Line, or Crowded Houses (Almar, the play fancifully billed as †ing the ———) and a dance by Miss Clara.
Sources
https://www.worldcat.org/title/ladies-club-a-burletta-in-two-acts/oclc/8881493?referer=br&ht=edition
https://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_Ladies_Club.html?id=KeGnjgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Lemon
Leona W. Fisher. 1988, "Mark Lemon's Farces on the 'Woman Question' ", Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (Vol. 28, No. 4, Nineteenth Century - Autumn), pp. 649-670
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.230, 234
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