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''[[Mr Popple (of Ippleton)]]'' is a comedy with music by Paul Rubens ()[].
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''[[Mr Popple (of Ippleton)]]'' is a comedy with music by Paul A. Rubens ()[].
  
 
Also found as ''[[Mr Popple]]'' only.   
 
Also found as ''[[Mr Popple]]'' only.   

Revision as of 06:34, 4 October 2020

Mr Popple (of Ippleton) is a comedy with music by Paul A. Rubens ()[].

Also found as Mr Popple only.

The original text

First performed in 1905 at the Apollo Theatre, London.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1906: Performed under the auspices of the Wheeler Brothers in the Opera House, Cape Town, opening on 18 June, with a cast that included Myles Clifton (in the leading role of "Freddy Popple"), Victor Gouriet, [Maud Thorne]], Sybil Thorne and Daisie Wallace.

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.425-6

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