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==The original text==
 
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A play about a  lady skilled at gambling called "The Moneyspinner", and her efforts to use her skills to save her husband from prison.
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First performed at Prince's Theatre, Manchester, 5 November 1880 and at St James's Theatre, London, on 8 January 1881.
  
 
Published by [[Samuel French]]
 
Published by [[Samuel French]]

Revision as of 05:20, 28 September 2020

The Money Spinner is a comedy in two acts by Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934)[].


The original text

A play about a lady skilled at gambling called "The Moneyspinner", and her efforts to use her skills to save her husband from prison.

First performed at Prince's Theatre, Manchester, 5 November 1880 and at St James's Theatre, London, on 8 January 1881.

Published by Samuel French

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1886: Performed by Madame Pearmain and her company in the Theatre Royal, Burg Street, Cape Town, as part of a season of plays she put on there in the last quarter of the year. Emily Levettez played "Milicent Boycott", a role she had created for the first performance of the play in London, according to Boonzaier (1923).

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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