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The Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1903 play by Baroness Orczy with her husband Montagu Barstow.
Contents
The original text
First performed in Nottingham in 1903, and at the New Theatre in London's West End on 5 January 1905.
Translations and adaptations
The play was subsequently adapted as a novel by Orczy and published in 1905.
Performance history in South Africa
1912: Presented by the Lang-Holloway Company at the Theatre Royal, Durban (July), His Majesty's Theatre, Johannesburg (July) and Opera House, Cape Town in October, with Matheson Lang and Huton Britton.
Sources
Greyvenstein, Walter 1988. The history and development of children's theatre in English in South Africa. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Johannesburg: Rand Afrikaans University.
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