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Performed at Adelphi Theatre as The Wreck Ashore; or, A Bridegroom from the Sea, on 21 October 1830. It was the hit of the 1830-31 season, during which it was repeated 80 times. | Performed at Adelphi Theatre as The Wreck Ashore; or, A Bridegroom from the Sea, on 21 October 1830. It was the hit of the 1830-31 season, during which it was repeated 80 times. | ||
Published as The wreck ashore : a drama, in two acts by London : Webster and Co., and by Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1830. | Published as The wreck ashore : a drama, in two acts by London : Webster and Co., and by Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1830. | ||
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== South African productions == | == South African productions == | ||
Revision as of 15:48, 4 January 2016
The Wreck Ashore is a drama, in two acts by by John Baldwin Buckstone (1802-1879)[1], with music composed by George H. Rodwell.
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Translations and adaptations
Performed at Adelphi Theatre as The Wreck Ashore; or, A Bridegroom from the Sea, on 21 October 1830. It was the hit of the 1830-31 season, during which it was repeated 80 times. Published as The wreck ashore : a drama, in two acts by London : Webster and Co., and by Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, 1830.
South African productions
1847: Performed on 2 June by the 90th Light Infantry in the Amateur Theatre, Cape Town, with the farce The Red Rover, or The Mutiny of the Dolphin (Fitzball)
1847: Performed for the benefit of the Regimental School on 7 July by the 90th Light Infantry in the Amateur Theatre, Cape Town, with The Wreck Ashore (Buckstone) and "A Serio-Comic Burlesque on the Tent Scene" in Richard III (Shakespeare)
Sources
https://www.umass.edu/AdelphiTheatreCalendar/m30d.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Baldwin_Buckstone
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928[2]: pp. 396
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