Still Waters Run Deep

Still Waters Run Deep is a play by Tom Taylor (1817-1880)[1]

The original text

Based on Charles de Bernard's French novel, Le Gendre, the play was first produced on stage at the Royal Olympic Theatre on May 14, 1855, and published in New York by C. T. De Witt in 1877

Performance history in South Africa

1858: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 11 May by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband (Brough), with a "Highland Fling" by an amateur. .

1858: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre, Cape Town on 18 May by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Medea, or The Best of Mothers, with a Brute of a Husband (Brough), in addition to a "Highland Fling" by an amateur and a "song in character" by J.E.H. English.

c.1861-1864: One of the plays performed by the Port Elizabeth Dramatic Club and collaborators during these, its active years.

1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 28 July by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Monsieur Tonson (Moncrieff).

1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 4 August by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with Monsieur Tonson (Taylor), along with a performance by Mrs Tellett and her company of A Perfect Cure (Sapte).

1862: Performed in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town on 23 September by the Cape Town Dramatic Club, with The Cure (Anon.), the latter play performed jointly as the Cape Town and Royal Alfred Dramatic Club.

1863: Performed by Thomas Brazier and a company of amateurs in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, on 10 October December, with as Living Too Fast, or A Twelvemonth's Honeymoon (Troughton) as afterpiece.

1866: Performed in the Harrington Street Theatre (Theatre Royal) by the Le Roy and Duret Company on 5 May, with Sam's Arrival (Oxenford).

1874: Performed by Disney Roebuck and company in the Mutual Hall, Cape Town, on 11 February, with The Morning Call (Dance).

1884: Performed, with H.C. Sidney as "Milday", as part of a season of plays put on in the Theatre Royal, Cape Town, by Henry Harper and company.

1891-2: Performed by the Geneviève Ward Company during a nine months' tour of South Africa, under the auspices of Luscombe Searelle, featuring Geneviève Ward and W.H. Vernon in the leading roles.

Sources

https://idiomation.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/still-waters-run-deep/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Taylor

Facsimile version of the 1877 text by De Witt, The Internet Archive[2]

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.143-147, 296-8, 392

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