Amateurs and Actors

Amateurs and Actors is a musical farce by Richard Brinsley Peake (1792–1847)[1].

The title also found as: Amateurs and Actors, or A Peep behind the Curtain, or Amateurs and Actors, or The Elopement.

The original text

Performed at the at the English Opera House on 29 August 1818 and published by Cumberland 1818, printed by William Fearman.

Performance history in South Africa

1831: Performed on 8 October, as Amateurs and Actors, or A Peep behind the Curtain by All the World's a Stage, as afterpiece to Ambrose Guinett, or A Sea-Side Story (Jerrold).

1832: Performed on 3 March by All the World's a Stage as afterpiece to Othello.

1835: Played as Amateurs and Actors on 3 June by the Garrison Players (the Officers of the 98th Regiment) in the Amateur Theatre, under the shorter title, as afterpiece to The Flying Dutchman, or the Phantom Ship (Fitzball).

1838: Performed as Amateurs and Actors on Monday 9 April, by the Private Amateur Company on , alongside Love in Humble Life (Payne) and The Vampire, or The Bride of the Isles (Planché).

Sources

http://www.eighteenthcenturydrama.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Details/HL_LA_mssLA2042

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brinsley_Peake

Facsimile version of the 1818 edition, Google E-Book[2]

Review in The Spectator, 30 June 1849, The Spectator online archives[3]

Bosman, 1928: pp. 207, 217, 220

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