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(Also known by the fuller title: ''Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy'')
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#REDIRECT[[L'Homme Blasé]]
 
 
A petite comedy, in two acts by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890).
 
 
 
Originally performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket by Charles Mathews, Tuesday, February 6th, 1844. 
 
 
 
Published in London in Dicks' Standard Plays, 1844 as a work by Dion Boucicault,  but apparently Charles Mathews influenced the play during production, and helped with the translation and the title, and later claimed part authorship. Indeed a later version (London & New York: S. French & Son, n.d.[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Used_Up_By_D_Boucicault_or_Rather_Adapte.html?id=jxsFMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y] ) states emphatically: "Rather, Adapted by D. Bourcicault [sic] and Charles J. Mathews from ''L'Homme Blasé'' of F.A. Duvert and A.T. de Lauzanne de Vauxroussel."
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
[[Sefton Parry]]'s  first production at Cape Town, in which he and his wife played the leads, helped by members of the [[Garrison Players]]. Performed under the full title of ''Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy'', it was accompanied by  a musical interlude and the musical farce ''[[Family Jars]]'' (Lunn) as afterpiece. This was done on Wednesday 13 June 1855, in a [[Drawing Room Theatre]] which he had constructed in the [[Commercial Exchange|Commercial Rooms]] in Cape Town.
 
 
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
Peter Thompson: Introduction to ''Plays by Dion Boucicault''[http://books.google.co.za/books?id=iC44AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=Used+Up+Boucicault&source=bl&ots=VMO5rWBsNY&sig=gmrM9mPpJWzc-YVXoG8BfyrfTVw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nxU7Uu2bCMbg7QaB94CwDw&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Used%20Up%20Boucicault&f=false]
 
 
 
Google Books "Used Up" (London & New York: S. French & Son, n.d.)[http://books.google.co.za/books/about/Used_Up_By_D_Boucicault_or_Rather_Adapte.html?id=jxsFMwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y]
 
 
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman|Bosman]], 1928: pp. 428
 
 
 
Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]
 
 
 
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