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Revision as of 05:37, 25 October 2017
Arrah-na-Pogue, or The Wicklow Wedding is a political melodrama in three acts by Dion Boucicault (1820-1890)[1].
Also found as either Arrah-na-Pogue or The Wicklow Wedding
Contents
The original text
Written in 1864, the play is a jaunty historical romance set in the Wicklow Mountains during the Rebellion of 1798. It was first performed at the Theatre Royal, Dublin on 7 November 1864, after which Boucicault rewrote it radically,before its first English production, which opened at the (Royal) Princess's Theatre, London, on 22 March 1865. It was first performed in the USA at Niblo's Garden, 537 Broadway, New York, on 7 December, 1865 by Boucicault's company.
The text published in New York by The De Witt Publishing House, [1864?]
Translations and adaptations
Adapted as a romantic opera in three acts called Shaun the Post in by R. J. Hughes, with music composed by Dermot MacMurrough. Performed at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, and published in Dublin by Pigott & Co., probably in 1924.
Performance history in South Africa
1875: Produced by Disney Roebuck in the Bijou Theatre, formerly the Oddfellows Hall, in September 1875. The set designer W. Thorne excels as the dancer of an Irish jig with Miss Maggie Duggan.
In July 1876
Sources
Entry on Arrah-na-Pogue in the Catalogue of Dion Boucicault Collections, in the University of Kent Library's Special Collections & Archives[2]
Arrah-na-Pogue, or The Wicklow Wedding, Catalogue information, National Library of Ireland [3]
Shaun the Post, Catalogue information, National Library of Ireland[4]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 327-330, 340, 341, 345, 348, 351, 363, 368).
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