Difference between revisions of "Miriam's Crime"
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First performed in the Royal Strand Theatre, London on 9 October, 1863. | First performed in the Royal Strand Theatre, London on 9 October, 1863. | ||
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
Revision as of 06:07, 18 September 2020
Miriam's Crime is a drama in three acts by H.T. Craven (Henry Thornton Craven, 1818-1905)[].
Contents
The original text
First performed in the Royal Strand Theatre, London on 9 October, 1863.
Published in New York by De Witt in 1863 (as No 45 of De Witt's Acting Plays).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1865: Performed by the Ray and Cooper Company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 30 October (and billed a comedy in 2 acts), with Villikins and his Dinah (Burnand).
1875: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, on 5 July (billed a play in 3 acts, "adapted from the celebrated novel"), with The Daughter of the Regiment (Fitzball).
1877: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 23 October (now billed the "admired Comedy Drama in 3 Acts"), with A Pretty Piece of Business (Morton) and a song by Miss Wynne.
1889: Performed by the Luscombe Searelle company in the Exhibition Theatre, Cape Town, as part of a season of plays with which the company toured the country. A star member of the company was the London comedian, Lionel Brough.
Sources
Online Books by H. T. Craven, The Online Books Page[1]
Facsimile version of the 1863 text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[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, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.192-3, 325, 361, 388
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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