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A Duel in the Dark! is a farce in one act by J. Stirling Coyne (1803-1868)[].
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The original text
First performed in the Theatre Royal Haymarket on January the 31st, 1852 and published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1866: Performed by the Le Roy-Duret Company as part of their introductory production in the Harrington Street Theatre , Cape Town, on 29 January, as afterpiece to Lucretia Borgia (Hugo/Donizetti, or Hugo/Weston), repeated on 20 April, with Love in Humble Life (Scribe and Dupin) and The Dear Admiral (Anon.)
Sources
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. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.325
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