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| − | ''[[Family Jars]]'' is a musical farce, in | + | ''[[Family Jars]]'' is a musical farce, in two acts by Joseph Lunn (1784–1863)[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lunn,_Joseph_(DNB00)]. Music by Perry. |
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== The original text == | == The original text == | ||
| − | Produced 26 August, 1822 at the Haymarket Theatre, London, and acted nineteen times. Performed at the Park Theatre and Burton's Theatre in New York. Printed both at New York and in London, in Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays,’ vol. xiv. 1850. | + | Produced 26 August, 1822 at the Haymarket Theatre, London, and acted nineteen times. Performed at the Park Theatre and Burton's Theatre in New York. Printed both at New York and in London, in Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays,’ vol. xiv. 1850 and as an annotated text in The Dramatic Publishing Company's series ''Sergels's Acting Drama'' No 230, Chicago, 1860. |
== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
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| + | Facsimile version of the 1860 edition, Hathitrust-ebook[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175035136871;view=1up;seq=1] | ||
[[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. 428-9, | [[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. 428-9, | ||
Revision as of 05:54, 14 February 2017
Family Jars is a musical farce, in two acts by Joseph Lunn (1784–1863)[1]. Music by Perry.
Given as a one act farce in Lunn's biography.
Contents
The original text
Produced 26 August, 1822 at the Haymarket Theatre, London, and acted nineteen times. Performed at the Park Theatre and Burton's Theatre in New York. Printed both at New York and in London, in Lacy's ‘Acting Edition of Plays,’ vol. xiv. 1850 and as an annotated text in The Dramatic Publishing Company's series Sergels's Acting Drama No 230, Chicago, 1860.
Performance history in South Africa
1855: Performed in Cape Town by Sefton Parry as afterpiece to Used Up, or The Peer and the Ploughboy (Boucicault), with a musical interlude. This was done on Wednesday 13 June, in a Drawing Room Theatre which he had constructed in the Commercial Rooms in Cape Town.
Translations and adaptations
Sources
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lunn,_Joseph_(DNB00)
Facsimile version of the 1860 edition, Hathitrust-ebook[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 428-9,
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