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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. | + | 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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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]
Contents
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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