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''The Illustrated Queen Almanac and Lady's Calendar'' for 1881 (p.62), Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=0j0oAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA10-PA4&lpg=RA10-PA4&dq=No.+1+Round+the+Corner+a+comedy+in+one+act&source=bl&ots=1Kbc0Epo2w&sig=ACfU3U1xtG5LlHC6D1E8tZFm3zgml0rtwA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1r-HWyu_sAhU7QkEAHednD7gQ6AEwCXoECAwQAg#v=onepage&q=No.%201%20Round%20the%20Corner%20a%20comedy%20in%20one%20act&f=false] | ''The Illustrated Queen Almanac and Lady's Calendar'' for 1881 (p.62), Google E-book[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=0j0oAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA10-PA4&lpg=RA10-PA4&dq=No.+1+Round+the+Corner+a+comedy+in+one+act&source=bl&ots=1Kbc0Epo2w&sig=ACfU3U1xtG5LlHC6D1E8tZFm3zgml0rtwA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi1r-HWyu_sAhU7QkEAHednD7gQ6AEwCXoECAwQAg#v=onepage&q=No.%201%20Round%20the%20Corner%20a%20comedy%20in%20one%20act&f=false] | ||
Revision as of 06:39, 8 November 2020
Number One, Round the Corner is a one act farce by William Brough (1826-1870)[1]
Also found as No. 1 Round the Corner
Contents
The original text
Licence sent 7 March for performance at the Theatre Royal Lyceum on 9 March 1854 (the stipulation made that the phrase "Oh Lord!" be omitted). Published in London by Thomas Hailes Lacy, in 1856 (as vol. 14, no. 199). https://intranet.royalholloway.ac.uk/dramaandtheatre/documents/pdf/lcp/playslicensedin1854.pdf
First performed at the Theatre Royal Lyceum, London, on 12 March, 1854 and Also published in French's Minor Drama (no. 193) and Spencer's Boston Theatre: a collection of scarce acting tragedies, comedies, dramas, farces and burlettas (vol. 7, no. 52),
Advertised as No. 1 Round the Corner (no author given) and called a "good two character piece" in a listing of "Plays suitable for private performances" in The Illustrated Queen Almanac and Lady's Calendar for 1881 (p.62).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
1877: Performed as No. 1 Round the Corner in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Disney Roebuck's company on 25 October, as an afterpiece to Blow for Blow (Byron).
1889: Performed as No. 1 Round the Corner in the Exhibition Theatre, Cape Town, by Luscombe Searelle's company as part of a season of plays featuring Lionel Brough (brother of the author) and put on during the second half of the year. The season was not a success.
Sources
"Brough, William 1826-1870", WorldCat Identities[2]
Lord Chamberlain's Plays, 1852-1866. January-March 1854, Royal Holloway University, London [3]
The Illustrated Queen Almanac and Lady's Calendar for 1881 (p.62), Google E-book[4]
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.362, 388
William Groom. 1899-1900. Drama in Cape Town. Cape Illustrated Magazine, 10(4): 478-481, 517-520, 547-552, 580-584, 640-643, 670-672, 706-708.
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