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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
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1882-3: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town, by the [[Mabel Hayes Company]] as part of a season of opera and drama that opened with a Christmas [[pantomime]] (''[[Cinderella]]'') in 1882 and lasting till July 1883.
  
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== Sources ==
  
== Sources ==
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Catalogue of Copyright Entries,  Volume 10, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913. [https://books.google.co.za/books?id=imSKkK-g3GoC&pg=PA288&lpg=PA288&dq=Taken+from+Life+a+play+by+Henry+Pettitt&source=bl&ots=RDSrwJOVeV&sig=ACfU3U3Y00Y3sdkD--Xw0WVN5_NtARe7Uw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik8oHA6KfxAhWUQUEAHTPCCZ4Q6AEwEnoECAgQAw#v=onepage&q=Taken%20from%20Life%20a%20play%20by%20Henry%20Pettitt&f=false]
  
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Pettitt]
 
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Pettitt, Henry (1848-1893): Actor, dramatist, ''The Adelphi Theatre Calendar''[https://www.umass.edu/AdelphiTheatreCalendar/img175f.htm]]
 
Pettitt, Henry (1848-1893): Actor, dramatist, ''The Adelphi Theatre Calendar''[https://www.umass.edu/AdelphiTheatreCalendar/img175f.htm]]
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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.)
  
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.375
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1980. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912''. Pretoria: [[J.L. van Schaik]]: p.375

Latest revision as of 06:51, 2 August 2021

Taken from Life is a play in five acts by Henry Pettitt (1848-1893)[1]

The original text

First performed in 31 December, 1881, at the Adelphi Theatre, London.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1882-3: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by the Mabel Hayes Company as part of a season of opera and drama that opened with a Christmas pantomime (Cinderella) in 1882 and lasting till July 1883.

Sources

Catalogue of Copyright Entries, Volume 10, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913. [2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Pettitt]

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Pettitt,_Henry

Pettitt, Henry (1848-1893): Actor, dramatist, The Adelphi Theatre Calendar[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.375

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