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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
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Revision as of 15:51, 23 March 2022

Bella Donna is a play by James Bernard Fagan

The original text

Adapted from the 1909 novel of the same name by Robert Smythe Hichens, the play was first performed on Broadway in 1912, featuring Alla Nazimova, and running for 72 performances.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

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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