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Revision as of 07:39, 9 April 2018
To Paris and Back for Five Pounds is a play by John Maddison Morton
Also found as To Paris and Back for £5 or To Paris and Back, for Five Pounds
The play is normally attributed to J.M. Morton, though a Google search also brings up a version attributed to C.A.F. Wood[1] (or another attributed to C. A. F. Wood, J. George Moore, James Thomas Gooderham Rodwell, John Maddison Morton, Samuel D. Johnson, Thomas Haynes Bayly, Thomas Morton) published in French's American drama. The acting edition, no. 76 and The Minor drama. no. 78 by S. French & son, in 1856[2]. It seems quite probable that the whole cast of the first production has been cited as "authors" in this case.
Contents
The original text
First performed at the Haymarket Theatre, London on 5 February, 1853 and published by Thomas Hailes Lacy as Volume 9 of Lacy's acting edition. Also in Issue 466 of 19th century British drama, Issue 43 of French's American drama.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1859: Performed as To Paris and Back for £5 by the Charles Fraser and his company in Cape Town with Ben Bolt (Johnstone) on 9 May.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Morton,_John_Maddison_(DNB00)
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 124,
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