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1867: Performed by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 4 November, as an afterpiece to ''[[The Woman in White]]'' (Collins) and the "Grand Scarf", a dance by [[Miss Clara]]. | 1867: Performed by the [[Le Roy and Duret]] company in the [[Theatre Royal]], Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 4 November, as an afterpiece to ''[[The Woman in White]]'' (Collins) and the "Grand Scarf", a dance by [[Miss Clara]]. | ||
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1874: Performed on 23 and 26 January in the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town by the [[Disney Roebuck]] company, with ''[[Lady Audley's Secret]]'' (Hazlewood). | 1874: Performed on 23 and 26 January in the [[Mutual Hall]], Cape Town by the [[Disney Roebuck]] company, with ''[[Lady Audley's Secret]]'' (Hazlewood). | ||
Revision as of 05:23, 25 July 2020
The Loan of a Lover is a vaudeville in one act by James Robinson Planché (1796-1880)
Contents
The original text
Originally performed at the Olympic Theatre, London in and then at the Park Theatre, New York. Published in 1847 by W. Taylor & co., New York, as No IV in The Minor Drama series.
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1858: First performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Cape Town Theatre, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 16 March, as an afterpiece to Money, or Rich and Poor (Bulwer-Lytton) and "the celebrated romance of Jock Rugg with the celebrated Burlesque of Statues", sung by J.E.H. English.
1861: Performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 8 July, as an afterpiece to Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne (Pocock).
1861: Performed by Sefton Parry and his company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 18 July, as afterpiece to Little Bo-Peep, or Harlequin and the Little Girl who Lost her Sheep
1867: Performed by the Le Roy and Duret company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 4 November, as an afterpiece to The Woman in White (Collins) and the "Grand Scarf", a dance by Miss Clara.
1867: Performed by the Le Roy and Duret company in the Theatre Royal, Harrington Street, Cape Town, on 9 December, as an afterpiece to The Snake in the Grass (Taylor) and a "new" dance by Miss Clara.
1874: Performed on 23 and 26 January in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town by the Disney Roebuck company, with Lady Audley's Secret (Hazlewood).
1874: Performed in the Oddfellows Hall, Cape Town, on 21 February by Disney Roebuck and his company, with Caste (Robertson).
1875: Performed by Disney Roebuck and his company in the Bijou Theatre, Cape Town, on 24 March, with East Lynne (Wood).
Sources
Facsimile version of the 1847 edition by Taylor and Co., The Internet Archive[1]
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.69, 98, 230-6, 311-3, 322m 327, 330, 360-1, 368
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