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Revision as of 06:41, 25 June 2020
Leap Year, or The Ladies' Privilege is a comedy in three acts by J.B. Buckstone ()[].
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1879: Performed as by Captain Disney Roebuck's Dramatic Company in the Saloon of the Royal Mailship Balmoral Castle, while on its way to Cape Town with the new company, that was to tour the country till the end of 1882. According to the programme, the "entire profits of the evening to be devoted to the benefit of the Sailors Orphanage and the Dreadnought" The play was no doubnt part of the company's repertoire and was performed in various parts of the country on occasion.
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 1932. (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.203-205
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