Difference between revisions of "Queen's Evidence"
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1884-5: Performed by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s first season as lessee and manager of the venue. | 1884-5: Performed by the [[Henry Harper Company]] in the new [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, as part of [[Henry Harper]]'s first season as lessee and manager of the venue. | ||
Latest revision as of 05:47, 16 March 2021
Queen's Evidence is a play by George Conquest (1837-1901)[1] and Henry Pettitt (1843-1898)[2].
(Not to be confused with the 1919 British silent adventure film called Queen's Evidence[3], which was based on the play Adam and Eve by C.E. Munro and Louisa Parr.)
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The original text
First performed at the Grecian Theatre, London, in 1876 and in Australia on 15 February 1879 at the Theatre Royal in Melbourne.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1882-3: Performed by the Mabel Hayes Company in the old Theatre Royal in Burg Street, Cape Town, as part of a season as lessee and manager of the venue.
1884-5: Performed by the Henry Harper Company in the new Theatre Royal, Cape Town, as part of Henry Harper's first season as lessee and manager of the venue.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Augustus_Conquest
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Pettitt
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr. 2015. Theatre and Evolution from Ibsen to Beckett. Columbia University Press: p.95[4]
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199361794/18349725
Allardyce Nicoll. 1975. A History of English Drama 1660-1900: Late 19th Century Drama 1850-1900 Cambridge University Press: p.415[5]
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 1923. (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: pp.376, 380
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