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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
  
 
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1817: Presented in the [[African Theatre]], Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on 14 July,  with as afterpiece  ''[[The Adopted Child]]'' (Birch).
  
 
1817: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on 11 October, with  ''[[The Mayor of Garratt]]'' (Foote) and ''[[The Turnpike Gate]]'' (Knight)
 
1817: Performed in Cape Town by the [[Garrison Players]] on 11 October, with  ''[[The Mayor of Garratt]]'' (Foote) and ''[[The Turnpike Gate]]'' (Knight)

Revision as of 19:59, 16 October 2016

Laugh When You Can is a comedy in five acts by Frederick Reynolds

The original text

Performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden in 1799. Published by Longman in 1799. New edition, 1802

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1817: Presented in the African Theatre, Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 14 July, with as afterpiece The Adopted Child (Birch).

1817: Performed in Cape Town by the Garrison Players on 11 October, with The Mayor of Garratt (Foote) and The Turnpike Gate (Knight)

Sources

Facsimile version of the new edition, 1802, Google eBook[1] [[ F.C.L. Bosman]], 1928: pp. 150-1,

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