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A three-act musical historical drama in three acts by George Colman (the Younger). Based loosely on a pair of stories in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote (1605).It was first performed in London at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, on Saturday, August 3, 1793, and had 25 performances. There were many revivals in later years.
Performances in South Africa
Presented in Cape Town, in South Africa under the patronage of the Governor by the Garrison Players in the African Theatre 30 August 1817, with The Anatomist (Ravenscroft) as afterpiece.
Sources
Bosman, 1928: pp 150
http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1170387438
http://www.uwec.edu/mwood/colman/summaries.html
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