The Miller and his Men

The Miller and his Men is a popular English romantic melodrama , in two acts by Isaac Pocock (1782–1835)[1], with music by Henry R. Bishop (1786–1855)[2]

(The author's name also printed "J. Pocock" on some editions and an listed thus by Bosman, 1928).

The original text

First performed in London in 1818, and was still playing in London in 1835, and there are records of regular performances by the Garrison theatre companies in Canada and South Africa.

The text was printed in London in 1813, later printed in New York by David Longworth, 1818.

Performance history in South Africa

1818: Performed in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs and Mr Cooke and his company, on 5 September, as afterpiece to The Birth Day (O'Keeffe), and again on 26 September (as afterpiece to Pixérécourt's The Wandering Boys, with an interlude of two songs sung by Mr Pitt and "The Bird Duet" ( from Dibdin's comic opera The Cabinet, with music by J. Braham), sung by Mr Cooke and Mrs Cooke).

1828: Performed on the January 1828 in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs, as afterpiece to The Irish Tutor (Glengall).

1836: Performed on 3 August 1836 in the African Theatre by the Gentlemen Amateurs, as afterpiece to She Stoops to Conquer (Goldsmith), and repeated on 23 September 1836 as afterpiece to The Poor Gentleman.

1843: According to William Groom (1899: p 518) a performance of the play was offered by an unnamed English company in the Roeland Street Theatre some time in 1843. It was followed by a farce.

Sources

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [3]: pp. 155, 192, 196, 417.

Groom 1899. p. 518.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bishop_(composer)

http://garrisontheatricals.com/category/history/

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