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==Translations and adaptations== | ==Translations and adaptations== | ||
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
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Décoré is a French comedy in 3 acts by Henri Meilhac (1830–1897)[1]
Also found as Decoré or Décoré! in some sources.
Contents
The original text
First performed in Paris at the Théâtre des Variétés, on 27 January 1888. Published in Paris by Calmann Lévy in 1894.
Translations and adaptations
Translated and adapted into English as The Cuckoo by Charles H. Brookfield. This English version opened at Wallack's Theatre, New York on 3 April, 1899.
Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012509310
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Meilhac
Ludwig Wilhelm Berthold Binge. 1969. Ontwikkeling van die Afrikaanse toneel (1832-1950). Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: pp.
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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