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1862: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 23 September by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]], with ''[[The Cure]]'' (Anon.), the latter play performed jointly as the [[Cape Town and Royal Alfred Dramatic Club]]. | 1862: Performed in the [[Theatre Royal]], Cape Town on 23 September by the [[Cape Town Dramatic Club]], with ''[[The Cure]]'' (Anon.), the latter play performed jointly as the [[Cape Town and Royal Alfred Dramatic Club]]. | ||
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Revision as of 12:47, 14 August 2019
Still Waters Run Deep is a play by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[1]
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The original text
Based on Charles de Bernard's French novel, Le Gendre, the play was first produced on stage at the Royal Olympic Theatre on May 14, 1855, and published in New York by C. T. De Witt in 1877
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1858: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 11 May by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband (Brough), with a "Highland Fling" by an amateur. .
1858: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 18 May by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband (Brough), in addition to a "Highland Fling" by an amateur and a "song in character" by J.E.H. English.
1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 23 September by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with The Cure (Anon.), the latter play performed jointly as the Cape Town and Royal Alfred Dramatic Club.
1866: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre (Theatre Royal) by the Le Roy and Duret Company on 5 May, with Sam's Arrival (Oxenford).
Sources
https://idiomation.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/still-waters-run-deep/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor
Facsimile version of the 1877 text by De Witt, The Internet Archive[2]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.143-147
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