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''[[The Brigand]]'' is a romantic drama in two acts by James Robinson Planché (1796–1880)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9].  
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''[[The Brigand]]'' is a romantic drama in two acts by James Robinson Planché (1796–1880)[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9], based on ''[[Le Bandit]]'', a French musical play in two acts  ("pièce en 2 actes mêlée de chants") by Emmanuel  Théaulon, (1787-1841), Charles Nombret Saint-Laurent, (17**-1833) and Théodore  Anne, (1797-1869). Published in Paris by R.Riga in 1829 and first performed in French at the Théatre de Nouveautés in Paris on 1839(?). 
  
== The original text ==
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'''See ''[[Le Bandit]]'''''
 
 
Based on ''[[Le Bandit]]'', a French musical play in two acts  ("pièce en 2 actes mêlée de chants") by Emmanuel  Théaulon, (1787-1841), Charles Nombret Saint-Laurent, (17**-1833) and Théodore  Anne, (1797-1869). Published in Paris by R.Riga in 1829 and first performed in French at the Théatre de Nouveautés in Paris on 1839(?). 
 
 
 
The English version was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 18 November 1829. Published by S. French (1880/1?)
 
 
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
 
 
1846: Performed , most probably by  [[All the World's a Stage]],  on Thursday 9 July,  as the opening production in the newly re-opened  [[Hope Street Theatre]], now known as the [[Victoria Theatre]],  followed by ''[[A Day after the Fair]]'' (Somerset).
 
 
 
1846: Performed on Saturday 4 September , most probably by  [[All the World's a Stage]], in the [[Victoria Theatre]],  followed by ''[[The Original]]'' (Morton) and ''[[The Lottery Ticket, or the Lawyer's Clerk]]'' (Beazley).
 
 
 
1846: Performed on special request on Saturday 12 September, during the annual Race Week, again probably by  [[All the World's a Stage]] and  in the [[Victoria Theatre]]. It followed on ''[[Who's Who? or The Double Imposture]]'' (Poole).
 
 
 
== Sources ==
 
[[F.C.L. Bosman]]. 1928. ''Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika'', Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: [[J.H. de Bussy]]. [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/bosm012dram01_01/]: pp. 415
 
 
 
Facsimile version of the 1829 French text, ''BnF Gallica''[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k84950m.r=Saint-laurent]
 
 
 
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006061413
 
 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Planch%C3%A9
 
 
 
http://books.google.co.za/books/about/The_brigand.html?id=yH_PAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
 
 
 
Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]
 
  
 
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Revision as of 06:24, 25 November 2016

The Brigand is a romantic drama in two acts by James Robinson Planché (1796–1880)[1], based on Le Bandit, a French musical play in two acts ("pièce en 2 actes mêlée de chants") by Emmanuel Théaulon, (1787-1841), Charles Nombret Saint-Laurent, (17**-1833) and Théodore Anne, (1797-1869). Published in Paris by R.Riga in 1829 and first performed in French at the Théatre de Nouveautés in Paris on 1839(?).

See Le Bandit

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