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''[[The Money Spinner]]'' is a comedy in two acts by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero].  
 
''[[The Money Spinner]]'' is a comedy in two acts by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero].  
  
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Also found as '''''[[The Money-Spinner]]'''''.
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==
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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
1886: Performed by [[Madame Pearmain]] and her company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Burg Street, Cape Town, as part of a season of plays she put on there in the last quarter of the year. [[Emily Levettez]] played "Milicent Boycott", a role she had created for the first performance of the play in London, according to [[D.C. Boonzaier|Boonzaier]] (1923).
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1886: Performed by [[Madame Pearmain]] and her company as part of a short season of eleven plays put in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, from 22 November onwards.   [[Emily Levettez]] played "Milicent Boycott", a role she had created for the first performance of the play in London, according to [[D.C. Boonzaier|Boonzaier]] (1923).
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
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Online Books by Arthur Wing Pinero, [[The Online Books Page]][https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Pinero,%20Arthur%20Wing,%201855-1934]
 
Online Books by Arthur Wing Pinero, [[The Online Books Page]][https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Pinero,%20Arthur%20Wing,%201855-1934]
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https://archive.org/details/money-spinner_2006_librivox
  
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Wing_Pinero
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[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]] 1980: pp. 374-439.)
 
[[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 [[F.C.L. Bosman|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.203-205
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[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.383
  
 
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Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

Latest revision as of 05:34, 2 January 2021

The Money Spinner is a comedy in two acts by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)[1].

Also found as The Money-Spinner.

The original text

A play about "Millicent Boycott", a lady skilled at gambling called "The Moneyspinner", and her efforts to use her skills to save her husband from prison after he had embezzled money.

First performed at Prince's Theatre, Manchester, 5 November 1880 and at St James's Theatre, London, on 8 January 1881.

Published by Samuel French.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1886: Performed by Madame Pearmain and her company as part of a short season of eleven plays put in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, from 22 November onwards. Emily Levettez played "Milicent Boycott", a role she had created for the first performance of the play in London, according to Boonzaier (1923).

Sources

Online Books by Arthur Wing Pinero, The Online Books Page[2]

https://archive.org/details/money-spinner_2006_librivox

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

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: p.383

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