Difference between revisions of "Mathilde, ou la Jalousie"
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== Performance history in South Africa == | == Performance history in South Africa == | ||
| − | 1884: Performed in English as ''[[Faces in the Fire]]'' by [[Henry Harper]] company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Burg Street, Cape Town on the 18th July with ''[[The Two Gregories]]'' (Dibdin). | + | 1884: Performed in English as ''[[Faces in the Fire]]'' by [[Henry Harper]] company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Burg Street, Cape Town on the 18th July with ''[[The Two Gregories]]'' (Sewrin/Dibdin). |
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Mathilde, ou la Jalousie is a French comedy in three acts (with music) by Jean-François Bayard (1796-1853)[1] and Laurencin (Paul-Aimé Chapelle, 1806-1890)[2].
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The original text
First performed at the Théâtre National du Vaudeville, Paris, on 3 June,1835. Published as Mathilde, ou la jalousie: comédie en trois actes, mêlée de chants by Dondey-Dupré in Paris in 1835.
Translations and adaptations
Freely adapted into English as a comedy in three acts by Leicester Silk Buckingham (1825-1867)[3] as Faces in the Fire, it was first performed St James’s Theatre, London, in March 1865.
Performance history in South Africa
1884: Performed in English as Faces in the Fire by Henry Harper company in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town on the 18th July with The Two Gregories (Sewrin/Dibdin).
Sources
Facsimile version of original French text, [4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Bayard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurencin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leicester_Silk_Buckingham
“The London Theatres” in The London Review March 4 1865: p. 249[5]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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