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Revision as of 05:43, 21 April 2021

Who's Who?, or The Double Imposture is a farce by John Poole ()[]

The original text

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1871: Performed as Who's Who by a regimental "Dramatic Club" (the sources are unclear about the company, it was possibly an outflow of or affiliation with the Cape Town Institute and Club's dramatic company) in the Theatre Royal, Main Barracks, Cape Town, on 6 May, with Slasher and Crasher (Morton) and Sarah's Young Man (Suter).

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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