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1866: Performed as ''[[The Dancing Scotchman]]'' on the 23rd of August by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] theatre company in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town, as afterpiece to a performance of ''[[Plot and Passion]]'' (Taylor and Lang). | 1866: Performed as ''[[The Dancing Scotchman]]'' on the 23rd of August by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] theatre company in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town, as afterpiece to a performance of ''[[Plot and Passion]]'' (Taylor and Lang). | ||
| − | 1866: Performed by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] theatre company in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town, as ''[[The Dancing Scotchman]]'' on the 25th of August. This was part of a children's matinee, which also included ''[[On the Sly]]'', ''[[The Nervous Cures]]'' (Brown and Norton) and ''[[Shadow Pantomime]]'' ([[Le Roy and Duret]]?). | + | 1866: Performed as ''[[The Dancing Scotchman]]'' by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] theatre company in the [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, Cape Town, as ''[[The Dancing Scotchman]]'' on the 25th of August. This was part of a children's matinee, which also included ''[[On the Sly]]'', ''[[The Nervous Cures]]'' (Brown and Norton) and ''[[Shadow Pantomime]]'' ([[Le Roy and Duret]]?). |
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The Dancing Scotchman is the name of a comic dance performance or ballet created by the couple Richard Flexmore (1824-1860) and Francesca Auriol (1829-1862, also known as Francisca Auriol).
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The original text
Created, choreographed and danced at the Standard Theatre, London, by Flexmore and Auriol in 1854.
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Performance history in South Africa
1866: A "new and interesting ballet" called The Dancing Scotchman, or Love in all Corners was performed on the 20th of August by the Le Roy and Duret theatre company in the Theatre Royal in Harrington Street, Cape Town, with Mrs Brazier in the lead and was offered as the afterpiece to a performance of Retribution (Taylor). The ballet was most probably a work created or adapted by members of the British company, based on the earlier work by Flexmore and Auriol, discussed above.
1866: Performed as The Dancing Scotchman on the 23rd of August by the Le Roy and Duret theatre company in the Theatre Royal in Harrington Street, Cape Town, as afterpiece to a performance of Plot and Passion (Taylor and Lang).
1866: Performed as The Dancing Scotchman by the Le Roy and Duret theatre company in the Theatre Royal in Harrington Street, Cape Town, as The Dancing Scotchman on the 25th of August. This was part of a children's matinee, which also included On the Sly, The Nervous Cures (Brown and Norton) and Shadow Pantomime (Le Roy and Duret?).
Sources
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 111, 115
Allan Stuart Jackson. 1993. The Standard Theatre of Victorian England. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: p. 118[1]
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