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1857: Performed as  ''[[Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw]]'' by the [[Boscawen Amateurs]] (officers of H.M.S. Boscawen) in "a suitable place" in Simonstown on on 7 July, with ''[[Don Caesar de Bazan]]'' ().
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1857: Performed by the [[Boscawen Amateurs]] (officers of H.M.S. Boscawen) in "a suitable place" in Simonstown on on 7 July, with ''[[Don Caesar de Bazan]]'' ().
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1857: On 11 February 1859, while the H.M.S. Boscawen was in Table Bay,  the [[Boscawen Amateurs]] (officers of H.M.S. Boscawen) put on a third performance of ''[[Don Caesar de Bazan]]'' in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, with ''[[The Rose of Amiens, or Our Wife]]'' (Morton). The officers were supported by [[Mrs Delmaine]], [[Miss Delmaine]] and [[Miss Rowlands]], as well as a number of local [[amateur]]s. [[W.R Jeffreys]]  was the star once more, while the rest of the cast included [[R. Wells]], [[C.B. Sevecke]], [[J.R.F. Fullarton]], [[T.A. de Waal]], [[C.T. Layton]], [[C.R. Smith]], [[W.S. Brown]], [[W.H. Maxwell]] and [[J.C. Plow]].
 
  
 
==Translations and adaptations==
 
==Translations and adaptations==

Revision as of 05:56, 3 September 2019

Grimshaw, Bagshaw and Bradshaw is a farce in one act by John M. Morton (1811 – 1891)[1].


The original text

First staged in 1851 at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, London.

Performance history in South Africa

1853: Performed in the Garrison Theatre, Cape Town by the Officers of the Garrison on 19 October, with Luke the Labourer, or The Lost Son (Buckstone); and repeated on 24 October.


1857: Performed by the Boscawen Amateurs (officers of H.M.S. Boscawen) in "a suitable place" in Simonstown on on 7 July, with Don Caesar de Bazan ().

Translations and adaptations

Sources

http://www.grimshaworigin.org/GrimshawBagshaw.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Maddison_Morton

F.C.L. Bosman. 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [2]: p. 423

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