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''[[An Empty Stocking]]'' is a play in one act by Fred Wright Jr (1871-1928)[https://gsarchive.net/whowaswho/W/WrightFredJr.htm]. | ''[[An Empty Stocking]]'' is a play in one act by Fred Wright Jr (1871-1928)[https://gsarchive.net/whowaswho/W/WrightFredJr.htm]. | ||
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A play about a father, his deserted daughter and an impecunious author. Opened in The Strand Theatre, London on 18 May, 1898. | A play about a father, his deserted daughter and an impecunious author. Opened in The Strand Theatre, London on 18 May, 1898. | ||
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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| + | 1899: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Durban, on 19 December by a visiting company led by [[Charles Arnold]] (referred to as [[Charles Arnold's English Comedy Company]] in some sources), as a double bill with ''[[What Happened to Jones]]'' (Broadhurst). | ||
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== Sources == | == Sources == | ||
Latest revision as of 06:55, 20 August 2021
An Empty Stocking is a play in one act by Fred Wright Jr (1871-1928)[1].
Contents
The original text
A play about a father, his deserted daughter and an impecunious author. Opened in The Strand Theatre, London on 18 May, 1898.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1899: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Durban, on 19 December by a visiting company led by Charles Arnold (referred to as Charles Arnold's English Comedy Company in some sources), as a double bill with What Happened to Jones (Broadhurst).
1900: The double bill performed by Charles Arnold's English Comedy Company in the Opera House Cape Town on 20 January.
Sources
https://gsarchive.net/whowaswho/W/WrightFredJr.htm
J.P. Wearing. 2013. The London Stage 1890-1899: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel, Scarecrow Press, p. 397[2]
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: pp.203-205
Walter Greyvenstein 1988a. The History and Development of Children's Theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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