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Online Books by T. Edgar Pemberton, [[The Online Books Page]][http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Pemberton%2C%20T.%20Edgar%20(Thomas%20Edgar)%2C%201849-1905] | Online Books by T. Edgar Pemberton, [[The Online Books Page]][http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Pemberton%2C%20T.%20Edgar%20(Thomas%20Edgar)%2C%201849-1905] | ||
Latest revision as of 05:45, 14 November 2020
Off Duty is a domestic comedy in one act by T. Edgar Pemberton (Thomas Edgar Pemberton, 1849-1905)[1]
Originally published with the title in parenthesis, i.e. as "Off Duty".
Contents
The original text
First performed at Toole's Theatre, London, on 9 September 1884 and published by Samuel French as Issue 1864 of French's acting edition.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1889: Performed by the Luscombe Searelle company in the Exhibition Theatre, Cape Town, as part of a season of plays with which the company toured the country. A star member of the company was the London comedian, Lionel Brough.
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1884 text, Hathi Trust Digital Library[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edgar_Pemberton
Online Books by T. Edgar Pemberton, The Online Books Page[3]
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.388
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