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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 21 June, with ''[[Is She a Woman?]]'' (Anon.) as afterpiece.
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1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 21 June. No author given.  ''[[Is She a Woman?]]'' (Anon.) played as afterpiece.
  
1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 12 July, with ''[[Is She a Woman?]]'' (Anon.) as afterpiece.
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1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 12 July, with ''[[The Waterman]]'' (Dibdin) as afterpiece and the Sailor's Hornpipe played by [[Herr Luin]].
  
 
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1866: Performed in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 22 September by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]] with ''[[Little Sentinel]]'' (Williams) and ''[[Don Juan]]'' (described as a "Magnificent Ballet" , it was probably a company version of Gluck and Calzabigi's ''[[Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre]]'').
1866: Performed in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 22 September by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]] with ''[[Don Juan]]'' (described as a "Magnificent Ballet" , it was probably a company version of Gluck and Calzabigi's ''[[Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre]]'').
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy-Duret Company]] in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, on 21 June, with ''[[Is She a Woman?]]'' (Anon.) as afterpiece.
 
 
 
1866: Performed in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town on 22 September by the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]] with ''[[Don Juan]]'' (described as a "Magnificent Ballet" , it was probably a company version of Gluck and Calzabigi's ''[[Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre]]'').
 
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==

Latest revision as of 05:34, 16 March 2021

The Queen of the Abruzzi is a drama in one act by Joseph Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[1]


Also found as Queen of the Abruzzi

The original text

Performed in the Adelhi Theatre, London on 8 June, 1846 and published by T.H. Lacy in the same year.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 21 June. No author given. Is She a Woman? (Anon.) played as afterpiece.

1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town, on 12 July, with The Waterman (Dibdin) as afterpiece and the Sailor's Hornpipe played by Herr Luin.

1866: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 22 September by the Le Roy and Duret Company with Little Sentinel (Williams) and Don Juan (described as a "Magnificent Ballet" , it was probably a company version of Gluck and Calzabigi's Don Juan, ou Le Festin de Pierre).

Sources

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

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.211-214

http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82207987/

Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press Archive[2]


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