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| − | ''[[A Woman of Impulse]]'' is a play by Victor Widnell ()[], variously described as an "intense drama" and a "comedy-drama". Performed in Australia circa 1912.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15376054] | + | ''[[A Woman of Impulse]]'' is a play by Victor Widnell ()[], variously described as an "intense drama" and a "comedy-drama". Victor Widnell's play , A Woman of Impulse , was produced in Liverpool on March 24 , 1902[https://books.google.co.za/books?id=czJmlUfBzNQC&pg=PA251&lpg=PA251&dq=Victor+Widnell&source=bl&ots=prp76_7oZt&sig=ACfU3U0xKp3MUWZh2esOC-4aLw6x3ctVjQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj9xJTw7onyAhVGQMAKHQI0Bs4Q6AF6BAgYEAM#v=onepage&q=Victor%20Widnell&f=false] . Performed in Australia circa 1912.[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15376054] |
Revision as of 05:39, 30 July 2021
There appear to be two plays by this name:
A Woman of Impulse is a play by Louis K. Anspacher ()[]
Opened on Broadway at the Theatre on 1 March, 1909.
A Woman of Impulse is a play by Victor Widnell ()[], variously described as an "intense drama" and a "comedy-drama". Victor Widnell's play , A Woman of Impulse , was produced in Liverpool on March 24 , 1902[1] . Performed in Australia circa 1912.[2]
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Translations and adaptations
There were two silent films called A Woman of Impulse, the one a Danish production (1915 )[3], the other an American, directed by Edward José and written by Eve Unsell, based upon the play of the same name by Louis K. Anspacher.[4]
Performance history in South Africa
1910: A Woman of Impulse performed as part of a season of plays taken on a national tour by the De Jong-Black Company, appearing in Cape Town towards the end of the year. The play ascribed to Victor Widnell by F.C.L. Bosman (1980) and referred to as a "comedy".
Sources
https://www.playbill.com/production/a-woman-of-impulse-herald-square-theatre-vault-0000005694
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZFL19130628.2.18?query=agnew
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1308176/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Woman_of_Impulse
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15376054
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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