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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
Performed in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on Saturday 12 September 1807, with  ''[[All the World's a Stage]]'' (Jackman).
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Performed in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on Saturday 26 September 1807, with  ''[[Abroad and at Home]]'' (Holman), and an epilogue written and spoken by [[Captain Collins]].
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 08:10, 15 January 2014

by Arthur Murphy. A farce in two acts, first performed performed at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden in 1761.

Originally offered in a three-act version, it was revised into a shorter, two-act version in 1762 and this version was then printed. The source for the play was a contemporary French play,

First published: 1763, for G. Kearsly [etc.]

Performance history in South Africa

Performed in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on Saturday 26 September 1807, with Abroad and at Home (Holman), and an epilogue written and spoken by Captain Collins.

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha009561078

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/citizen.-farce-as-it-is-performed/id483401340?mt=11

http://projects.chass.utoronto.ca/prescrip/18thcComedy/plays/76_murp_citizen.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Murphy_(writer)

Bosman, 1928: pp. 73,

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